Hundreds of protesters in Canada’s capital called on Saturday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of the facilities. Until the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous, Inuit and Metis youths were forcibly enrolled in the schools, where students were […]
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Gunmen abduct 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren. Heavily armed gangs have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom, but since the start of the year they […]
Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen have kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, a school official said on Monday, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targetting schoolchildren and students. Heavily-armed criminal gangs often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom in northwest and central Nigeria, but since the start of the […]
Trudeau doesn’t rule out criminal probe of indigenous school graves
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Friday for “harmful government policies” and did not rule out a criminal probe after hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at a former indigenous residential school in western Canada. The public mea culpa for the policy of indigenous assimilation and other historical wrongs comes one day after the Cowessess First […]
Nigerian school kidnap victims escape sleeping guards
Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130 pupils and teachers snatched by gunmen from an Islamic seminary, the school’s headteacher told AFP Tuesday. On May 30 around 200 motorcycle-riding gunmen from one of the gangs known locally as bandits stormed Tegina town in […]
Three dead, two missing under Belgium school collapse
Three construction workers were confirmed dead and two still missing on Saturday, a day after a school construction site partially collapsed in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The city’s fire department tweeted that three bodies had been found under the rubble. “Despite this terrible toll, the rescue work continues unabated until we are also able to […]
Schools reopened in KP
The Elementary and Secondary Education Department Wednesday notified reopening of all public and private primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools across the province with immediate effect. All classes of primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools in winter areas would be normal school timings while all primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools in […]
Lack of papal apology for Canada indigenous school abuses ‘shameful’: minister
Canada‘s indigenous services minister said Wednesday it is “shameful” that the Pope has never formally apologized for abuses at the country’s Catholic-run indigenous residential schools, which he termed “labor camps.” Marc Miller‘s comments followed the recent discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children in Kamloops at one of 139 boarding schools set up a century […]
Families appeal for aid freeing kidnapped Nigerian schoolkids
Relatives of scores of schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from an Islamic seminary over the weekend have appealed to the government to help free them, after the latest mass abduction to target a Nigerian school. Some 200 children were at the school in Tegina, central Niger state, when it was raided on Sunday, the local government […]
Scores of children abducted from Islamic seminary in Nigeria
Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest mass abduction to hit Africa’s most populous nation. Some 200 children were at the school in Niger state on Sunday during the attack, the local government tweeted, adding “an unconfirmed number” were taken. The abduction came a day after […]