Nigeria: Video released purporting to show kidnapped boys

We get the latest on the fate of hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped in Nigeria’s Katsina State. The militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the kidnapping, and now a video has been released, purporting to show the captives. Some analysts are sceptical as to whether or not Boko Haram was actually responsible.

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(Photo: A protest in Katsina urging the authorities to rescue the abducted schoolboys; Credit: Kola SULAIMON / AFP)