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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

‘A very sad day’: Parents of Nigeria’s missing Chibok girls demand action eight years after kidnapping

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Easter in Nigeria is a time when many people traditionally get together with their relatives to celebrate weddings and other festivities, but for Yana Galang, the holiday serves as an agonising reminder of her family’s suffering.

Yet it is an important occassion for her and dozens of other parents to mark the anniversary of and demand action over the kidnapping of their daughters from their school dormitory in the northeastern Nigeria town of Chibok eight years ago

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