Chibok mothers to speak in Washington

Some mothers of the more than 200 schoolgirls Boko Haram kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State two years ago will for the first time speak out about their ordeals at an event scheduled for the United States later on Thursday.

The event will be held in Washington, titled, “Nigeria: Fractured and Forgotten.” Other speakers on the panel, co-hosted by the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative and the Heritage Foundation, include U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom David Saperstein, former Congressman Frank Wolf, Becky Gadzama, Co-Founder of Education Must Continue Initiative in Nigeria.

Elijah Brown, Executive VP of 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, and Joshua Meservey, Africa and Middle East Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, will also speak.

In addition to Mary’s riveting story, this timely discussion will focus on the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative’s new, in-depth report detailing the urgent challenges to religious freedom in Nigeria. It also offers strategic policy guidance to help the United States stand with Nigeria at this critical hour. Communities of faith in northern and central Nigeria face discrimination, deadly security threats from Boko Haram violence, and accelerating aggression by Fulani militants in the Middle Belt.

With five million people indefinitely displaced, Nigeria faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

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By Unknown on Thursday, 9 June 2016