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Kidnapped Nigerian Girls Get Unexpectedly Hostile Homecoming TakePart

The world rejoiced as groups of Nigerian girls and women being abducted by Boko Haram were returned to their communities. #BringBackOurGirls attracted a firestorm of global support for the approximately 2,000 females abducted by the terrorists, but a joint report released this week by UNICEF and human rights group International Alert, confirmed that many women and teen girls are being rejected by their communities and families. This is so often the case when females are raped and often find themselves pregnant.

BuzzFeed goes in-depth into the Nigerian terror group for This Is How Boko Haram Trying To Turn Captives Into Suicide Bombers. 

It began with efforts to erase all sense of identity. Minutes after Boko Haram fighters stormed into Michika, a speck of a town in northeastern Nigeria, they singled out all the teenaged girls and herded them onto trucks. The terrified prisoners were told their names would be changed. Those who protested had their throats slit.

Silently repeating her name to herself, 17-year-old Yohana understood what the turbaned men intended for her and six others as they rattled through the night to a Boko Haram hideout last December: “They wanted us to stop thinking.”

Lagarde's Ease in Winning New IMF Term Belies Harder Road Bloomberg

French Leader Christine Lagarde was reappointed 'by consensus' on Feb. 19th to a second five-year term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The action to reconfirm eliminates any doubt about Lagarde's stature within the IMF, a consortium of 188 member countries. Concerns about market turmoil plague the IMF, as Lagarde heads to Shanghai next week for Group 20 discussions around the global economy. 

In January Lagarde met with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, whose country is not only fighting terrorism but suffering from deep-seeded corruption and plummeting oil prices. Newsweek points out that Boko Haram's six-year insurgency has had a devastating impact on Nigeria's economy. It's estimated that it will cost more than $1 billion to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the group. But no attempts to rebuild or develop the economy can happen without some degree of stability in northern Nigeria.