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Angelina Jolie condemns Chibok kidnapping

HOLLYWOOD actress, Angelina Jolie, has described the kidnapping of over 200 school girls in Nigeria by Boko Haram insurgents as “unthinkable cruelty.” The popular star spoke on Tuesday in Paris about the themes of her latest film, Maleficent, in which she plays a vindictive fairy driven to curse an infant princess. “Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty. And it’s unthinkable cruelty like these girls that were kidnapped in Nigeria. Unthinkable cruelty and evil,” she said at a press conference. A total of 276 students were kidnapped in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State three weeks ago when Boko Haram stormed their school loaded them onto trucks. Several managed to escape, but over 220 girls are still being held, according to security agents. In a video message obtained by AFP on Monday, Abubakar Shekau, the head of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, confessed to holding the girls and threatened to sell them. Other foreign artistes who have joined the Bring Back Our Girls campaign include Justin Timberlake, Mary J Blige, Keri Hilson and Chris Brown.

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