May 10 Watch Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls face serious risks By PBS News Hour The Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the extremist group Boko Haram face serious risks including malaria-carrying mosquitoes, unsafe drinking water and poisonous snakes. That’s according to Michelle Faul of the Associated Press, who spoke with Hari Sreenivasan from Lagos, Nigeria about… Continue watching
May 10 Michelle Obama speaks out on kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls By Darlene Superville, Associated Press Michelle Obama on Saturday decried the kidnapping of scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who have been missing for nearly a month and used their plight to speak out for the rights of girls everywhere to get an education. Continue reading
May 09 Watch How rescuing the abducted Nigerian girls became an international cause By PBS News Hour Nearly a month since the Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a village in Nigeria and made off with more than 300 girls, that country’s government and military have been criticized for failing to do more. Amnesty International has reported that… Continue watching
May 09 Gwen's Take: The perils of keyboard activism By Gwen Ifill The Internet makes it so easy. You see a compelling picture, you retweet it, Instagram it, or post it to your Facebook page. Instantly, you have joined a movement and signaled to everyone you know (or kind of know) that… Continue reading
May 09 'Bring Back Our Girls' photos on Twitter are not of missing Nigerians By Colleen Shalby The photos portray girls in Guinea-Bissau -- more than 1,000 miles away from Nigeria -- who are completely unrelated to more than 200 girls that Boko Haram kidnapped. Continue reading
May 08 Watch Nigeria's president vows to find missing girls despite disheartening possibilities By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 08 Watch 'Slow progress' for U.S. on addressing terror insurgencies in Africa By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 07 Watch Can outside nations help rescue missing Nigerian girls? By PBS News Hour A small team of U.S. specialists will head to Nigeria to help efforts in locating more than 270 girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school -- a provocative attack that has drawn international outrage. To examine expectations for U.S. Continue watching
May 07 Watch U.S., U.K. pledge help finding abducted Nigerian schoolgirls By PBS News Hour Deadly unrest continued in Nigeria, where hundreds of people were killed in another militant attack. The uncertain fate of more than 270 abducted schoolgirls continues to haunt the country and the girls’ community in particular. The U.S. and U.K. are… Continue watching
May 07 Mother on Nigeria abductions: Each missing girl 'is like my own child' By Larisa Epatko When more than 200 teenage girls were abducted last month from their boarding school in Nigeria, Angelina Atyam knew firsthand the anguish the parents were feeling. Continue reading