{"id":26118,"date":"2014-05-03T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T20:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26118"},"modified":"2014-05-03T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T20:07:54","slug":"us-will-do-everything-possible-to-rescue-nigeria-girls-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/us-will-do-everything-possible-to-rescue-nigeria-girls-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"US Will Do \u2018Everything Possible\u2019 To Rescue Nigeria Girls \u2013 Kerry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px; text-align: justify;\">US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do \u201ceverything possible\u201d to help Nigeria deal with Boko Haram militants, following the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px  0px  6px;\">\u201cLet me be clear. The kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime,\u201d Kerry said in a policy speech in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cWe will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes and hold the perpetrators to justice. That is our responsibility and the world\u2019s responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">The US, he added, was \u201cworking to strengthen Nigeria\u2019s institutions and its military to combat Boko Haram\u2019s campaign of terror and violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Gunmen believed to be Islamist fighters stormed the girls\u2019 boarding school in the country\u2019s northeast nearly three weeks ago, forcing them from their dormitories onto trucks and driving them into the bush after a gun battle with soldiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Nigerian police on Friday said Boko Haram militants were holding 223 girls of the 276 seized from the school, revising upwards the number of youngsters abducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">The girls\u2019 abduction has triggered global outrage and prompted protests in a number of Nigerian cities, as desperate parents call on the government to secure their release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Nigerian mothers on Saturday vowed to hold more protests to push a greater rescue effort from authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cWe need to sustain the message and the pressure on political and military authorities to do everything in their power to ensure these girls are freed,\u201d protest organiser Hadiza Bala Usman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">She said that women and mothers will on Tuesday march to the offices of the defence minister and chief of defence staff \u201cto ask them what they are doing to rescue our daughters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">\u201cWe believe there is little or no effort for now on the part of the military and government to rescue these abducted girls, who are languishing in some dingy forest,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">Nigeria\u2019s information minister, Labaran Maku, said on Friday that President Goodluck Jonathan had chaired a top-level meeting with military and security chiefs about a possible rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">The mass kidnapping is one of the most shocking attacks in Boko Haram\u2019s five-year extremist uprising, which has killed thousands across the north and centre of the country, including 1,500 people this year alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px  0px;\">A car bombing in Nigeria\u2019s capital Abuja on Thursday that killed 19 has fuelled fears that the Islamist group may be shifting its focus outside of its historic base in Nigeria\u2019s remote northeast.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do \u201ceverything possible\u201d to help Nigeria deal with Boko Haram militants, following the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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