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Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - Protesters will hold a "million-woman march" in the Nigerian capital Wednesday over the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists two weeks ago. "May God curse every one of those who has failed to free our girls," said Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were among the more than 100 students abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in the Chibok area of the northeastern state of Borno. The attack was one of the most shocking in Boko Haram's five-year uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across northern and central Nigeria. Borno officials have said 129 girls were kidnapped when gunmen stormed the school after sundown on April 14 and forced the students -- who are between 12 and 17 years old -- onto a convoy of trucks.
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