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Nigeria school kidnapping draws fresh US ire

Students stand in a classroom in Shehu Kangiwa Model Primary School in Argungu, Kebbi State, in northern Nigeria, on April 12, 2025. [Leslie Fauvel, AFP]

Nigerian forces hunted Tuesday for armed fighters who abducted 25 schoolgirls in the northwest, in the latest burst of violence seized upon by US President Donald Trump's followers.

The early Monday morning raid on a secondary school in Kebbi State was the latest abduction of schoolchildren in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, more than a decade after Boko Haram's infamous kidnapping of 276 girls in the northeast sparked international uproar.

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