Schoolchildren were kidnapped Thursday, and a week earlier and hundreds of miles away, women collecting firewood disappeared.
A woman in Chikun, Nigeria, cries as she calls on the government to rescue schoolchildren who were kidnapped Thursday. DAKAR, Senegal — Nigeria has been rocked by two mass kidnappings in the past week, with the United Nations, government officials and local residents saying that hundreds of women and children were abducted in separate incidents.
Details about the first abduction are still emerging, in part because of connectivity issues in the area, which is near Nigeria’s border with Cameroon, and because there have been conflicting reports about the number of people taken and whether the abduction was carried out by Boko Haram or its rival, the Islamic State West Africa Province .
“While an unspecified number of older women and children under 10 have reportedly been released, scores of IDPs remain unaccounted for, according to protection partners,” Fall’s statement said. He said that although Boko Haram remains larger than is sometimes widely acknowledged — he estimated that it has about 2,000 members — it controls far less territory than it once did and will have limited options in terms of where to take the women and girls. Its movement will be constrained by both security forces and ISWAP, a rival offshoot with which the group regularly clashes.
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