The kidnapping of a country
THE road to Chibok is eerily quiet, lined with checkpoints manned by civilians, many of them teenagers, wielding rusty rifles and serving as added security for an area that has little. In this north-east Nigerian village, where more than 200 teenage schoolgirls were kidnapped by the militant Islamist separatist group Boko Haram, on April 14, their stunned families were still waiting for them to come home.