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United States runners Larry James, left, Lee Evans, center, and Ron Freeman are shown after receiving their medals for the 400-meter race at the Mexico City Games in Mexico City, in this Oct. 18, 1968, file photo. Evans won gold, James took silver and Freeman got the bronze medal. Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, died Wednesday, May 19, 2021. He was 74. USA Track and Field confirmed Evans' death. The San Jose Mercury News reported that Evans' family had started a fundraiser with hopes of bringing him back to the U.S. from Nigeria, where he coached track, to receive medical care after he suffered a stroke last week.(AP Photo/File) **FILE**

Record-setting sprinter, ‘68 Olympic activist Lee Evans dies

Associated Press

A woman who said she was trafficked from Nigeria under false pretenses to work as a sex slave in Burkina Faso's mining sites, walks through a row of tent in the Secaco mining town June 12, 2020. As part of a months-long investigation into sex trafficking and the gold mining industry, The Associated Press met with nearly 20 Nigerian women who said they had been brought to Burkina Faso under false pretenses, then forced into prostitution. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Aid group facilities targeted in northeast Nigeria

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

Burned vehicles are parked outside the police command headquarters in Owerri, Nigeria, on Monday, April 5, 2021. Hundreds of inmates escaped from a prison in the southeastern Nigerian city after a series of coordinated attacks, according to government officials. (AP Photo/David Dosunmu)

1,800 inmates escape Nigeria prison after gunmen attack

By HILARY UGURU - Associated Press

Pirates free 10 abducted fishermen in Nigeria, ransom paid

By HILARY UGURU - Associated Press

Student Amtallahi Lawal, 11, who hid under her bed and managed to escape when gunmen abducted more than 300 girls from her boarding school on Friday, recounts her ordeal at her house in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, northern Nigeria, Monday, March 1, 2021. Families in Nigeria waited anxiously on Monday for news of their abducted daughters, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of school students in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed

By Lekan Oyekanmi and Sam Olukoya - Associated Press

Raimonde Goudou Coffie , culture minister, receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday March 1, 2021. Ivory Coast is the second country in the world after Ghana to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/ Diomande Ble Blonde)

Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students

Associated Press

Father Aliyu Ladan Jangebe, whose four daughters are among more than 300 girls who were abducted by gunmen on Friday from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School, waits for news in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, northern Nigeria Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Families in Nigeria waited anxiously on Sunday for news of their abducted daughters, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of school students in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Mansur)

Nigerian families await news of 300 kidnapped schoolgirls

By IBRAHIM MANSUR - Associated Press

Students and teachers who were abducted by gunmen from the Government Science College Kagara two weeks ago are seen after their release meeting with the state Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, in Minna, the capital of Niger state, in Nigeria Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. Their release was announced a day after police said gunmen had abducted more than 300 girls Friday from a boarding school elsewhere in northern Nigeria, in Zamfara state. (AP Photo)

Students abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

One of the students who was not kidnapped from a Government Girls Junior Secondary School following an attack by gunmen in Jangebe, Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. (AP Photo/ Ibrahim Mansur)

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus

By CARLEY PETESCH and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Gunmen kill student, abduct more than 40 people in Nigeria

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

Nigeria’s president replaces service chiefs amid insecurity

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

Nigerian police working to rescue abducted orphans and staff

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

Pirates attack Turkish ship off W. Africa; kill 1, kidnap 15

By ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

A baby is dressed in a Santa hat at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) ** FILE **

Africa CDC: New virus variant appears to emerge in Nigeria

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

A mother is reunited with her freed schoolboy son who was among the kidnapped students in Katsina, Nigeria Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate their release. The boys were abducted one week ago from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara in Katsina state village. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Amid freed Nigeria schoolboys’ joyful reunions, fear lingers

By LEKAN OYEKANMI and SUNDAY ALAMBA - Associated Press

A group of schoolboys are escorted by Nigerian military and officials following their release after they were kidnapped last week, Friday Dec. 18, 2020 in Katsina, Nigeria. More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrate their release. The boys were abducted one week ago from the all-boys Government Science Secondary School in Kankara in Katsina state village. Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist rebels claimed responsibility for the abduction. saying they attacked the school because it believes Western education is un-Islamic, factional leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video earlier this week. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed; calls for more security

By CARLEY PETESCH and LEKAN OYEKANMI - Associated Press

Usama Aminu, 17 year-old, a kidnapped student of the Government Science Secondary School who escaped from bandits is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Kankara, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. The school boy who escaped says the students were kidnapped by young, armed men in military uniform. Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest such attacks in years, raising fears of a growing wave of violence in the region. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian official: More than 300 abducted schoolboys freed

By CARLEY PETESCH and HARUNA UMAR - Associated Press