Nigeria's wave of kidnappings: Why the spike in attacks across the north?
Africa • Dec 1, 2025, 7:09 PM
1 min de lecture
Why is Nigeria in the throes of a kidnapping epidemic? Sometimes depicted as terrorists, other times as bandits, attackers have targeted three schools inside of a week, leading some to compare the abductions with the 2014 Chibok attacks by the jihadists of Boko Haram. We do our comparison and revisit the same question as a decade ago – why would any human being abduct children; in some cases nursery school children?
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