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Nigeria's freed schoolboys reunite with parents after ordeal

by Sunday Alamba & Lekan Oyekanmi
| December 20, 2020 8:06 AM

KANKARA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country’s northwest.

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