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Over 250 Children Abducted as Nigeria Faces Security Crisis
12/7/2025
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Story summary
- Nigeria's Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar linked United States threats against Islamists to the kidnappings.
- More than 250 children remain abducted after the November 21 incident, while Nigeria is forming a Multinational Joint Task Force.
- Some children have been rescued.
- Tuggar recalled the 2014 Chibok kidnapping, which followed similar threats.
- Tinubu declared a security crisis.
