aibu to wonder why last Monday's kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls by Boko Haran has hardly been mentioned on UK news

[Jayfee]

Why has it hardly been mentioned?? I have seen nothing on tv BBC or ITV news or heard on LBC? Just heard a brief mention on bbc radio 4 and a longer piece this morning. 110 girls abducted from school at lunchtime in Nigeria last week Monday? Have I just missed it on the main news progs?

There’s also a huge amount of confusion with authorities citing 33-40 pupils were ubaccounted for until parents produced a list of still missing students 2 days later. The count is 110 missing but police are still insisting they could have run away and are just hiding as opposed to have been kidnapped. It’s a mess

I don't disagree that it is an important event but it might be that media coverage this is counter productive. Groups like Boko Haram want to generate as much international publicity as possible and giving them this may encourage them to repeat these atrocities.

Do you think if 110 Nigerian school boys were kidnapped it would make the uk news?

I'm pretty sure that would be yes.

YANBU. How terrible and awful and there are just no words.

'This does have an indirect link to Trump though, and our press does tend to like those stories. Chad has one of the strongest military forces in the region and had Boko Haram on the back foot, they had lost a lot of territory - and then Trump issued his travel ban, including Chad who had been working with American forces. And of course the "shithole countries" remark was the cherry on the cake. Chad started withdrawing their fighters and Boko Haram came straight back like a weed. If the USA had a President with the tiniest drop of diplomacy in him, those girls would probably not have been kidnapped.' you make a great point because the 'nobel peace prize' president did not have any girls kidnapped under his watch

It was on the BBC news on tuesday. We have a tv in the showroom and I noticed it was a headline.

*Do you think if 110 Nigerian school boys were kidnapped it would make the uk news?

I'm pretty sure that would be yes.*

Nonsense as someone pointed out above the boys are murdered but not reported

They have run away and are hiding

Mind you, our children who were being abused were deemed by the authorities to be "child prostitutes" and so no aciton needed to be taken...

Very different situations but as others make the point, bad stuff happens to a greater or lesser extent everywhere and authorities all over the world are well capable of inaction based on the perceived value of the victims.

Becasue it's snowing and snow gets far more clicks than anything else.

Sadly I am beginning to realise what some of you have said, that there is so much evil in the world that it can't all be reported on. It just made me sad, particularly to hear the mum and dad of one 14 year old girl who had gone to school and been kidnapped to face whatever horrors might await her. Just one of 110 innocent young girls.

Snow
Brexit
Nigeria probably being the most hated country in Africa

It’s horrific. I can’t imagine what those girls and their families are going through