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Desperate Nigerians sell homes and land to free kidnapped children

Parents attend a meeting at the Salihu Tanko Islamic school in Tegina, Niger State, Nigeria August 10, 2021. [Reuters]

 After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children in northwestern Nigeria, he sold his car and a parcel of land and cleaned out his savings to raise a ransom to free them.

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