WASHINGTON — As Boko Haram Islamic extremists drove the Nigerian girl and her classmates away from their school in the dark of night, she prayed for their lives. Then she leaped from the pickup truck into the jungle. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the schoolgirls’ abduction, the young woman stood in front of the U.S. Capitol with a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers who vowed to secure the release of 219 remaining captives. Saa, the pseudonym she uses to protect her family, broke down as she recalled her friends. “I just wish I can talk to them,” she said. “I just wish they can...
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