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#BringBackOurGirls: Boko Haram & Nigeria's 200+ Chibok Girls, Three Weeks On

On April 15, 2014 an estimated 200+ girls at the Chibok Government School in Borno state of Northern Nigeria were abducted by armed militiamen suspected of being members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram. The girls had just returned to school to take their final physics exam following school closures across the region after targeted attacks by Boko Haram. Almost 20 days after the incident, over 200 16- to 18-year old girls are still missing, with about 50 escaping and returning to tell their harrowing tale. Accounts from nearby village inhabitants, who witnessed a mass wedding taking place indicate that the girls may likely have been "married off" to the militiamen, have left parents and relatives at wits end. There are also fears that the girls  may have been trafficked into neighboring Chad and/or Cameroun. Their parents received this information when they ventured into the wilderness with bows and arrows in search of their daughters. Two weeks after their dau...

Guest Post: Letter to Zimmerman by Flossy Azu

You were there when Trayvon died. As the country screams for justice and tears are wrung from bleeding hearts, one truth remains. Trayvon died.   You killed him. He died because you killed him. Many tongues and even more minds have more than two cents to share about your motive. About the canker sores that eat at the cores of the United States of America. Conversations and talks, Tweets and walks, Protest, cry outs One-liners and shouts Someone feels the pain of a lost child. You killed a child, Mr. Zimmerman, No one knows that better than you because the only other person who could is now dead. You were there when Trayvon died. Mr. Zimmerman, it must be something difficult you’re going to have to deal with. You were with him in his last moments. Did you speak to him? Did you yell out the last words he heard on earth? You were there when Trayvon died. Mr. Zimmerman, you’ll probably be plagued for a while, fin...