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Photos show scenes from Nigeria, where widespread violence affects both Christians and Muslims
Over 52,000 civilians have died in Nigeria's armed violence since 2009, with both Christian and Muslim communities affected amid ongoing kidnappings and attacks.
- On Monday, gunmen abducted 25 schoolgirls and killed at least one staff member at a boarding school in Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria, amid rising mass student kidnappings.
- Analysts say rogue gangs generally aren't connected to Boko Haram and exploit porous borders and corrupt institutions, demanding ransoms reaching thousands of dollars.
- CFR and ACLED figures indicate that since 2009, 52,915 civilians have been killed, and in Ligari, gunmen seized at least 62 people, holding them nearly a month.
- Families are selling land and goods to pay ransoms, and Tabitha Danladi says she sold everything to feed her four children while local security forces often arrive too late or are absent.
- This month, President Donald Trump named Nigeria a 'country of particular concern' and urged military preparations, while analysts and local leaders say violence affects both Christians and Muslims and motives remain unclear.
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Much of northern Nigeria has been battered by conflict in a longstanding security crisis, and U.S. President Donald Trump has singled the country out for what he calls “the killing of Christians” by “radical Islamists.”
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