Tag: Schoolchildren

  • UNICEF condemns brutal attack, abduction of schoolgirls in Zamfara

    UNICEF condemns brutal attack, abduction of schoolgirls in Zamfara

    The United Nations Children Fund says it is angered and saddened by the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls in an overnight attack on the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe, Talata in the Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State, North-West Nigeria. “We are angered and saddened and by yet another brutal attack on schoolchildren…

  • 22 schoolchildren drown after boat sinks

    22 schoolchildren drown after boat sinks

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    Witnesses said 22 children drowned when a boat ferrying them to their school sank on the Nile River in Sudan Wednesday. The boat had been carrying about 40 children, the SUNA news agency reported, when it capsised due to rough conditions, with the river swollen from heavy rains. An adult woman on board was also…