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Primary schoolchildren abducted in northern Nigeria
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Primary school children have become the latest targets for abduction by gunmen in north-western Nigeria. They were taken, along with their teachers, just days after college students were kidnapped from a college in Kaduna.
The medical charity, MSF, has accused soldiers in the Ethiopian region of Tigray of launching deliberate attacks on healthcare facilities.
We speak to Botswanan RnB artist Amantle Brown.
(Picture: The aftermath of a separate school abduction in Zamfara State in February. Credit: Getty Images)
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