Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a United Nations source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 pupils and staff thought to remain in captivity remains unclear.
In November, 315 pupils and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s Catholic boarding school in Papiri in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014…
