Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls face danger of rape, UN expert warns

The Nigerian schoolgirls who remain captives of Boko Haram militants “definitely” face the danger of being raped, a senior United Nations official has said.

“My worry is those girls don’t come back half of them pregnant,” the world body’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura told a luncheon at the British Residence in New York.