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Parents of abducted Nigeria students plead for rescue

A pair of shoes is seen inside a student dormitory at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. [IFEANYI IMMANUEL BAKWENYE / AFP]

Parents of dozens of children kidnapped last week from a Catholic school in Nigeria are desperate for their release, with one father crying out that his son is so young he has not yet learned to speak.

Armed gangs seized more than 300 children from a Catholic school in Nigeria's central-western Niger state, in a resurgence of the mass kidnappings that have long harrowed Africa's most populous country.

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