Kidnapping's New Normal: Nigeria's Children Held Hostage Borno state in north eastern Nigeria has become all too familiar with the sound of gunfire and armed men swooping into towns to kidnap children.
The latest wave of mass abductions is just the most recent manifestation of a broader crisis that shows no signs of abating.
More than 50 schoolchildren, mostly toddlers and nursery pupils, have been taken from their classrooms in Mussa.