UN Secretary-General António Guteres has welcomed the release of most of the Dapchi schoolgirls abducted the by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. The Secretary-General, in a statement issued in New York, called on the Federal Government to bring the abductors of the schoolgirls to justice. Guterres welcomed “the safe return today of most of the 110 girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents during an attack on an educational institution in Dapchi Town, Yobe State, Nigeria on 19 February”. The Secretary-General reiterated his calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining missing girls and for their safe return to their families. He urged the Nigerian “authorities to swiftly bring those responsible for this act to justice”. The Federal Government on Wednesday confirmed the release of 104 of the 110 abducted students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe on Feb. 19. The girls were reportedly brought to Dapchi town in the early hours of Wednesday by their abductors suspected to be members of a faction of the Boko Haram terrorists
It was the cries of children - and the moment they decided they must save themselves - that haunt the survivors of a shipwreck that claimed hundreds of lives. Two Eritreans who arrived safely in Sicily told The Associated Press on Sunday how the sea kept seeping into their rickety fishing boat despite all efforts to bail the water out. Eventually, the sea prevailed. Between 400 and 550 on their smugglers' boat didn't make it, part of the estimated 700 migrants who perished in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days last week in the deadliest known tally in over a year, as calm weather and sunny skies increased smuggling crossings from Libya. "When the morning came, I saw how the children were crying and the women," Habtom Tekle, a 27-year-old Eritrean, told the AP through an interpreter. "At this point I only tried to pray. Everybody was trying to take the water out of boat." The rickety wooden boat without an engine was being towed by another smug...
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