Photo taken on February 26, 2021 shows personal belongings of students of the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe town in the Talata-Mafara local government area of Zamfara state, Nigeria. [Emma Houston/Xinhua]United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday strongly condemned the latest mass kidnapping of students in Nigeria and demanded unconditional release of them. Photo taken on February 26, 2021 shows personal belongings of students of the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe town in the Talata-Mafara local government area of Zamfara state, Nigeria. Last week, 279 schoolgirls were freed after being snatched from their boarding school at Jangebe, in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state. In 2014, the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram's attack on the Chibok secondary school in Borno state sparked international outcry and prompted the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Source: Standard Digital March 13, 2021 09:25 UTC