Nigeria girls 'forced to marry insurgents for €10'

Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civil society group claims.

Nigeria girls 'forced to marry insurgents for €10'
Wed, 30 Apr, 2014 - 17:36

Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civil society group claims.

Parents say the girls are being sold into marriage to Boko Haram militants for 2,000 naira (€10), Halite Aliyu of the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum said.

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