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Why don’t celebrities care about the Israeli hostages?

18 November 2023

9:00 AM

18 November 2023

9:00 AM

My mind keeps going back almost ten years, to Nigeria in 2014. As some readers will remember, on the night of 14 April, 276 mainly Christian schoolgirls were abducted by terrorists from the Boko Haram group. It happened at a school in a town called Chibok in Borno State.

In some ways it is obvious why there was such international outrage at the incident.

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