The government says 279 schoolgirls kidnapped in northwest Zamfara state have been released. Gunmen took them from a state run school on Friday. It is the latest of a series of abductions in the region. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris joins us live, from Gusau in Nigeria’s Zamfara State, for the latest updates.
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