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World Tour - Kidnapping in Nigeria
WORLD Radio - World Tour - Kidnapping in Nigeria
Plus: Political turmoil in Mali, protests in Argentina, a mass grave in Canada, and an extinct tortoise in the Galapagos Islands. Parents are reunited with their daughters in Jangabe, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Sunday Alamba/Associated Press Photo
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The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.
ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER:
AUDIO: [Sounds of screaming, crying]
Fourteen students kidnapped in April from a university in northwestern Nigeria reunited with their families on Saturday. Their captors freed them after 40 days.
Spray-painted words on the monument at Ryerson University called for action in response to the remains of 215 children discovered in unmarked burial sites in Kamloops B.C.
of the remains of 215 children. the remains were found at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. the discovery has sparked outrage, prompting some in canada to lay out tiny shoes at makeshift memorials. a member of the first nations, lua mondor, said the discovery wasn t surprising: certainly no surprise at all. everybody in the first nations community knew that there were mass graves. we have been calling it for years. we have been telling the government for years that there are mass graves in every single residential school, but they didn t listen to us. canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, has pledged help but without giving details. at a news conference, he said he was horrified by what had happened. as a dad, i can t imagine what it would feel like to have my kids taken away from me. and as prime minister, i am appalled by this shameful policy that stole indigenous children from their communities.