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Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls movement, delivers a speech on April 14th, 2019, during the fifth annual commemoration of the abduction of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram from a government secondary school in Nigeria.

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The True Story of the Nigerian Schoolgirls Who Survived Boko Haram

Isha Sesay's new book gives a full and harrowing account of what happened to the 276 girls kidnapped by the jihadist group.