Two weeks after gunmen abducted more than 250 students and 12 staff members from St. Maryโs Catholic boarding school in Papiri, a remote hamlet in Niger state, northern Nigeria, families remain trapped in fear, frustration, and uncertainty.
The attack underscores a growing pattern of school kidnappings that have left communities paralyzed and the nation grappling with a decade-long security crisis.
For parents like Sunday Gbazali, a farmer and father of 12, the trauma is unbearable.
His 14-year-old son was taken on Nov. 21. โI barely sleep,โ Gbazali said. โMy wife cries constantly.
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