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'These girls matter': US tycoon helping Chibok pupils back into the classroom

America's richest black man found himself losing sleep this year over a problem that had nothing to do with running a business worth billions of dollars.

Robert Smith was used to powering through life's hurdles, both personal and political. But he couldn't shake off what he had heard on the radio one May morning. A newsreader was debating the fate of the dozens of girls who escaped when the Islamist militants Boko Haramsnatched 276 female pupils from their dormitories in north-eastern Nigeria's Chibok.

"I was driving two of my own children to school, and it just hit [me] as a parent," he said. "And then the scale of [Chibok]. Even if it was just two or three, it's a tragedy, but 300?"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/girls-matter-us-tycoon-helping-chibok-pupils-back-classroom-boko-haram-robert-f-smith

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Brian M. Kwesiga