Bring them all back


Free at last: Some of the 21 released girls at the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria. — EPA

The return of some of the 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram is encouraging, but the vast majority are still in captivity.

By all accounts, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has had a strange week. He’s 73 and into his second term as president. Like one of his predecessors Olusegun Obasanjo, Buhari’s two spells in office were decades apart and under very different circumstances.

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