Reporting the Nigerian school kidnappings
Why it was vital for BBC journalists to visit the site of the Nigerian school kidnappings, despite dangers.
More than 300 children were kidnapped from a school in the western Nigerian village of Papiri in November, but in the aftermath, accounts of the kidnappings were confused and misleading. BBC Africa's Madina Maishanu was part of a team of journalists who faced huge risk to visit the site of the kidnappings and hear the testimonies of parents.
In October this year, a young Chechen woman living in Armenia, Aishat Baimuradova, was killed. She had previously escaped a repressive life in Chechnya but is now believed to be the first Chechen woman in exile to be killed outside of Russia. BBC Russian's Zlata Onufrieva and Olga Prosvirova set out what is known about Aishat's life and death, and consider the implications of her killing for Chechen women living in exile.
This episode of The Documentary comes to you from The Fifth Floor, the show at the heart of global storytelling, with BBC journalists from all around the world.
Presenter: Faranak Amidi
Producer: Laura Thomas, Caroline Ferguson and Hannah Dean
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)
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