Waiting for Hassana

Duration: 10 min
Release date: 2017-01-19
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In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.

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Waiting for Hassana

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