Nigeria: 130 kidnapped schoolchildren released and handed over to authorities

Approximately 130 students from a Nigerian Catholic school were handed over to local authorities on Monday. The government announced their release the day before. Officials stated that this was the last group of schoolchildren captured by armed men during the mass abduction in late November at St. Mary's mixed boarding school, located in the remote village of Papiri. The children were aged between four to ten years, according to one of the teachers. A hundred...