Since her escape, Rebecca Ishaku (18) has been haunted by nightmares of the moment Boko Haram militants stormed into her school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria six months ago and kidnapped nearly 300 girls. The morning of the anniversary of the abduction on Tuesday this week was no different. “I still cried about them this morning,” Ishaku said at a protest in the capital Abuja in support of her 219 classmates who remain in captivity. Among them were her best friends Hauwa, Saratu and Monica, who had been too scared to run when the Islamist gunmen burst in and began rounding up the girls. “I dream my friends have come back, but when I greet them, they don’t answer me. I wish I could help...
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