Was US slow to act on Nigeria abductions?

Nigeria's military has admitted that most of the teenage girls abducted by suspected Islamist militants have not been freed as it earlier stated.

The White House says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist militants "an outrage".

A march will be held in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to press for the release of some 190 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.

... And four other questions about Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls

A relative's tears after seeing footage of Nigeria's abducted girls

Will the media attention over Nigeria's abductions backfire?

Nigerian family waits for news of abducted schoolgirls

A student who escaped when Boko Haram rebels stormed a school and abducted schoolgirls, identifies her schoolmates from a video released by the Islamist rebel group at the Government House in Maiduguri, Borno State May 15, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/STRINGER.
SOURCE: REUTERS(Reuters) - Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman suspected of being at the head of a Boko Haram intelligence network that helped plan the abduction of more than 200 school girls in the northeast, the military said on...

South Sudan's army says it has summoned for questioning a militia leader accused of abducting hundreds of boys from school.