Boko Haram continues to kidnap more young girls to be sold into slavery

For those of you who aren't aware, there is a real serious issue going on in Nigeria where young girls are being kidnapped and sold into marriage and/or slavery by a radical group named, Boko Haram. Well, in total, hundreds of school girls have been kidnapped and the latest is that 8 more girls have been kidnapped. The Guardian reports:

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped eight girls aged between 12 and 15 from a village near one of their strongholds in north-east Nigeria, police and residents say.

"They were many, and all of them carried guns. They came in two vehicles painted in army colour. They started shooting in our village," said Lazarus Musa, a resident of Warabe, where the attack happened on Monday night.

"Many people tried to run behind the mountain but when they heard gunshots, they came back. The Boko Haram men were entering houses, ordering people out of their houses."

The military's inability to find the girls has led to protests in the north-east, Abuja and Lagos, the commercial capital. More are expected on Tuesday in Abuja, just as delegates will be collecting their badges to allow them entry to the hotel where a World Economic Forum meeting on Africa will take place from Wednesday to Friday.

A bomb in Abuja killed 19 people last week, another event that has embarrassed the government before the forum.