Leah Sharibu Not Forgotten
In the shadowed forests of northeastern Nigeria, where the line between hope and despair blurs like the Sahel dust storms, 21-year-old Leah Sharibu is still in chains. Abducted at 14 from her school in Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, 2018, by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a brutal offshoot of Boko Haram, Leah Sharibu has become a symbol of unyielding faith amid unrelenting terror. Her crime? Refusing to renounce her Christianity, a defiance that has kept her from the freedom granted to 104 of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped alongside her.
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