Chibok Girls/Boko Haram

Lawmakers Recommit to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’On the second anniversary of Boko Haram's kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls, Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica S. Wilson and colleagues vowed to continue pushing for their return. “We find ourselves now in a precarious situation, where we are mourning…and hoping,” Wilson said at a news conference… Read more »

US Lawmakers Vow Never to Forget Nigerian Girls Taken by Boko HaramRepresentative Frederica Wilson of Florida is easy to spot in a crowd. Dressed all in red from her cowboy hat to her boots, she stood on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to mark the somber two-year anniversary of the abduction of more than 200 girls from the northern Nigerian village of Chibok by the militant… Read more »

REMEMBERING THE BUNI YADI SCHOOLBOYS MASSACREToday marks a dark moment in Nigeria’s history. On February 24, 2014, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed 59 boys at the Buni Yadi secondary school in Yobe state. That same year, Boko Haram killed enough people to earn the title of the “world’s deadliest terrorist group.”Before committing this unspeakable act,… Read more »