Nigeria: Abducted schoolchildren reunite with families as over 150 remain captive

Schoolchildren who were abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month were finally reunited with their parents overnight into Wednesday following their release.

Gunmen seized 303 students and 12 of their teachers during an attack on St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community on 21 November.

Fifty children escaped in the hours that followed. The families of the remaining captives had to endure weeks of anxiety and…