Why we should care about kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
For anyone wondering, The Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad, known by its Hausa name Boko Haram, is a militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria (where Islamic people are mostly found), north Cameroon and Niger. It was founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002 and is solely based on Ilamic ideas and stopping westernisation, for example educating girls.
The group is known for attacking Christians, Muslims and government heads, bombing churches, mosques, schools and police stations, and kidnapping western tourists, but has also assassinated members of the Islamic establishment who have condemned their operations. Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths between 2002 and 2013.
