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	Podcast:		The Journal.
	Episode:		How Kidnapping Became Big Business in Nigeria
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:24:43
	Publish Date:		2021-08-06 20:39:00
	Description:		In 2014, the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria. It gave rise to a viral Twitter movement #BringBackOurGirls and would eventually inspire hundreds of similar kidnappings in the years that followed. The WSJ's Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson explain how criminal groups are building a kidnapping for ransom industry in Nigeria.
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