Kerry condemns Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapping
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the kidnapping of around 200 hundred schoolgirls in Nigeria, as he addressed a youth conference in Ethiopia on Saturday (May 3).
Kerry is currently on an African tour to promote democracy and human rights, where he visited Ethiopia and South Sudan and is currently on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola where he will end his trip on May 5.
While addressing the conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kerry condemned the girls' abduction from a school in the northeast of the West African country.
"Let me be clear: the kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime and we will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes..." he said.
Gunmen suspected to be from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on April 14 stormed an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the kidnapping of around 200 hundred schoolgirls in Nigeria, as he addressed a youth conference in Ethiopia on Saturday (May 3).
Kerry is currently on an African tour to promote democracy and human rights, where he visited Ethiopia and South Sudan and is currently on his way to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola where he will end his trip on May 5.
While addressing the conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kerry condemned the girls' abduction from a school in the northeast of the West African country.
"Let me be clear: the kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime and we will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes..." he said.
Gunmen suspected to be from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on April 14 stormed an all-girls secondary school in the village of Chibok, in Borno