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Shehu Haruna reads a local newspaper with headlines declaring that the military were alerted before the abduction of secondary school girls in Chibok, on a street in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday, May 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge in Nigeria, abduct wife, 2 kids

By Michelle Faul and Ibrahim Abdulaziz - Associated Press

Protests in Boston over Nigeria kidnappings

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Nigerians hold Chicago rally for abducted girls

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In this Twitter photo, first lady Michelle Obama pleads for the safe return of more than 200 girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria.

First lady Michelle Obama appeals for return of Nigerian girls in Mother’s Day address

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Nigerian communities in Texas look home in grief

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI - Associated Press

South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014. The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram's campaign of violence, and protests around the world. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

British, US experts join Nigeria search for girls

By MICHELLE FAUL and HARUNA UMAR - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold banners, Friday, May 9, 2014, near the Nigerian High Commission in London, as they protest the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria. Global outrage against the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian girls by Islamist militant group Boko Haram heated up Thursday, as a social media campaign drew worldwide support. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Pentagon: No drones to help Nigerian girls, but U.S. State Dept. will provide experts

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Athletes compete in the men's 3,000m steeplechase at the IAAF Diamond League in the Qatari capital Doha, Friday May 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Fraser-Pryce wins 100 at Doha Diamond League meet

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FILE - This file image made available Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2012, taken from video posted by Boko Haram sympathizers, shows the leader of the radical Islamist sect Imam Abubakar Shekau. Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the April 15, 2014, mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. Even before the kidnapping, the U.S. government was offering up to a $7 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Shekau, whom the U.S. has labeled a specially designated global terrorist. (AP Photo/File)

Nigeria’s military forces ignored advanced warnings before girls’ abduction

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

The kidnappings of nearly 300 schoolgirls, a deadly raid and the recent slaughter of 40 schoolboys by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria has draw the attention of Britain and the U.S. Both countries have dispatched advisors to help the Nigerian government deal with the terrorist group. (Associated Press)

Kidnappings, raid from Nigeria terror group Boko Haram draw U.S., British attention

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

As Nigerian sailors stand at attention, the American flag is lowered for the last time on the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. After 45 years of service, the Gallatin was transferred to the Nigerian Navy during a dockside ceremony. The cutter, the second cutter in three years transferred to the Nigerian Navy, was transferred under the federal Excess Defense Article Program. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

US Coast Guard cutter transferred to Nigerian Navy

By BRUCE SMITH - Associated Press

Illustration on Boko Haram and kidnapped Nigerian girls by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CROUSE: More brazen acts from Boko Haram

By Janice Shaw Crouse

Pentagon: No military ops planned yet for Nigeria

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday May 5, 2014. Their plight &#8212; and the failure of the Nigerian military to find them &#8212; has drawn international attention to an escalating Islamic extremist insurrection that has killed more than 1,500 so far this year. Boko Haram, the name means "Western education is sinful," has claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping and threatened to sell the girls. The claim was made in a video seen Monday. The British and U.S. governments have expressed concern over the fate of the missing students, and protests have erupted in major Nigerian cities and in New York. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Boko Haram takes credit for abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls, threatens to sell them

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Monday April 21, 2014, file photo, four female students of the government secondary school Chibok, who were abducted by gunmen and reunited with their families, walk in Chibok, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ Haruna Umar, File)

Nigeria police: 276 abducted girls still missing

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In this Thursday, May, 17. 2012 photo released by Yellow sun ltd, actress Thandie Newton, left, and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, right, act in a film ''Half of a yellow sun'' an adaptation of novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's book, in Calabar, Nigeria. The film stars an Oscar nominee, is set in Nigeria during a civil war, is based on an award-winning novel and the head of Nigeria’s censorship board reportedly loved it. Yet a week after the scheduled premiere of “Half of a Yellow Sun,” it still has not been shown in any theater in Nigeria. Nigerian government censors are effectively banning the film but they will not say why, director Biyi Bandele told The Associated Press on Thursday. He spoke in a telephone interview from his home in London, where the movie placed among the 10 most popular at cinemas over the Easter weekend. It debuts in the U.S. on May 16. It hasn’t opened in Nigeria yet because the censors may fear it could stoke tribal rivalries. The board hasn’t issued an explanation. The movie stars Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave” - the 2014 best picture Oscar) and Thandie Newton and is an adaptation of the book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is partly set during the 1967-1970 civil war when the southeast sought to break away from the federation, and it comes at a time when Nigeria is threatened by an Islamic uprising in the northeast, jeopardizing unity between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south. A ban on the movie would perpetuate the conspiracy of silence that has kept Nigerians from discussing the civil war, a subject that was pointedly excluded from history lessons in schools, Bandele said. (AP Photo/ Yellow Sun Ltd)

Nigeria film encounters roadblock in Nigeria

By MICHELLE FAUL - Associated Press

An unidentified mother cries out during a demonstration with others who have daughters among the kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok, Tuesday April 29, 2014, in Abuja, Nigeria. Two weeks after Islamic extremists stormed a remote boarding school in northeast Nigeria, more than 200 girls and young women remain missing despite a &#8220;hot pursuit&#8221; by security forces and desperate parents heading into a dangerous forest in search of their daughters. Some dozens have managed to escape their captors, jumping from the back of an open truck or escaping into the bush from a forest hideout, although the exact number of escapees is unclear. (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)

Girls kidnapped in Nigeria forced to marry their terrorist captors: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times