By OPE ADETAYO and DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN Associated Press
Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a high school in the country's northwestern Kebbi state. At least one member of staff at the school was killed in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility. A police spokesperson says the raid happened at 4 a.m. on Monday and that the girls were taken from their dorms. The boarding school is in Maga, in the state's Danko-Wasagu area. This is the latest in a series of abductions from schools in northern Nigeria, where armed groups have been targeting schoolchildren since 2014.
Infant twins suffered from malnutrition in Nigeria. One died shortly after the Trump administration sharply cut funding for the United States Agency for International Development. USAID for years had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria. It helped non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people under threat from Boko Haram militants. Now programs to feed hungry children are closing. A former USAID chief nutritionist predicts 163,500 additional deaths per year worldwide as treatment for severe malnutrition is limited. The mother in Nigeria cradles the surviving twin and says, "I don't want to bury another child."
