#Kidnapping

Shh, There's a Ceasefire

Since June, Abuja has reportedly been observing a secret truce with Boko Haram, sealed after an alleged five-billion-naira payment that the government denies making. In Adamawa, gunmen described as Boko Haram fighters spent seven hours killing twelve villagers and abducting a ten-year-old girl. Soldiers arrived twenty hours later. Discretion, at least, was assured.

Too Young to Marry, Old Enough to Convert

Two Hindu sisters, aged 13 and 14, allegedly abducted, converted to Islam and married off in Pakistan's Sindh province, begged a court to let them go home. The court sent them to a safe house. In Sindh, marrying a child is a crime. Converting one, as clerics keep reminding lawmakers, has no age limit.