Human Rights Watch says hundreds of children remain missing while officials refuse to acknowledge the largest-ever mass abduction of Nigerian schoolchildren by Boko Haram Islamic extremists.
The New York-based group says hundreds were kidnapped from the northeastern town of Damasak on November 24, 2014. It quotes traditional leaders saying they submitted a list of 501 missing children to police and local Government officials in April 2015, when the town was briefly recovered from Boko Haram, but have never received a response.