Source: CNN
Protesters in a “million-woman march” on Wednesday, April 30, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, highlight the government’s failure to rescue scores of girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in mid-April. Militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of night at a high school in the nation’s far northeast, a hotbed for Islamist group Boko Haram.HIDE CAPTILagos, Nigeria (CNN) — If you are a young person living in Africa right now, it can be pretty confusing knowing what to believe: is it a hopeful place or is it trapped in a vicious cycIs it the site of the world’s fastest growing economies, or is it a place where more than 200 schoolgirls are kidnapped and held captive for two weeks with no hope of recovery?
On the one hand, much more than half of the employable young population is out of a job and there are many caught in wars and rumors of wars, from Sudan’s two sides to the Central African Republic.
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