Published on January 6, 2025 at 10:26. / Modified on January 6, 2025 at 10:27.
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The kidnapping of the “Chibok girls” by the jihadist group Boko Haram in 2014 caused global outrage. Several world powers had dispatched experts to Nigeria to try to recover the teenage girls taken by force by armed Islamists. In vain.
In all discretion, Pascal Holliger from Neuchâtel “succeeded where so many others had failed”, through perseverance and his knowledge of the field, write Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw, journalists from Wall Street Journal in the book Bring Back Our Girlswhich recounts the event. The Swiss diplomat played a key role in the two operations, in 2016 and 2017, which resulted in the release of around a hundred of the 276 teenage girls kidnapped by the terrorist group.
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