What to know about abductions of schoolchildren in Nigeria

Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north.

It’s not immediately clear who’s to blame for the latest seizure in Kebbi state, an act that has come to define insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation and the painful consequences.

Kidnappers in the past have included the Boko Haram insurgency that carried out the mass abduction of 276 Chibok schoolgirls over a decade ago, bringing the…