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
Britain's Home Office said on Sunday that on 20 people, 18 of them Albanians, had been rescued overnight from an inflatable boat that started to take on water in the English Channel. The group, including two Britons, was taken to Dover for interviewing by UK border officials after the rescue. The British coast guard says it received word that the vessel was in trouble shortly before midnight on Saturday. The complex operation included a search-and-rescue helicopter and lifeboats dispatched from several English ports. The boat was in trouble off the coast of Dymchurch, 120km southeast of London. The group was travelling in a rigid-hulled inflatable boat and it took rescuers several hours to locate the small craft. There have been several recent incidents in which migrants in small vessels tried to reach Britain.
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