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Friday, 23 January 2015

BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson writes on Nigeria and Chibok girls

                                         London activists march in 2014. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images


Read the article below:

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t seem to have heard the slogan “Bring Back Our Girls” much recently. Last April, if you recall, it was everywhere. Michelle Obama, wearing an appropriately solemn face, held up a placard bearing those words. The CNN news anchor Christiane Amanpour thrust a similar placard into the hands of a startled David Cameron live on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show and he obediently said he agreed. A variety of C-listers queued up to join a campaign that looked wholesome and was surely liable to succeed.