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One year after it was perpetrated, the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls by a jihadist group in Nigeria remains a crime almost too horrifying to comprehend: Hundreds of teenaged girls, just finishing school, destined perhaps for significant achievement -- kidnapped, never to be seen again.

CNN digital producer, Stephanie Busari shares her memories of the day Boko Haram kidnapped the school girls from Northern Nigeria.

On April 14, 2015, Boko Haram militants kidnapped some 276 teenage girls from their boarding school in Chibok, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state. Despite pleas from their families to bring them home, a year later, most are still missing. While they've been gone:

How can more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls simply disappear? And how can the Nigerian government and the rest of the world have allowed this to happen?

The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a year ago this week captured global attention and inspired the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, but the horrors for Nigeria's children are widespread.

A year after Mohamed Morsy became Egypt's first democratically-elected president, millions of Egyptians took to the streets calling for him to step down.

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate them ourselves."

The victory of a 72-year-old former general, Muhammadu Buhari, in the Nigerian elections represents a moment of maturity in West African politics. Buhari, who some 30 years ago was Nigeria's harsh military leader, could of course prove to be a disaster; so many self-described reformers have been. swath

Kenyans gather in Nairobi to remember victims of a terrorist attack that stunned a nation.

Authorities detained a 15-year-old girl from Cape Town, South Africa, at the city's airport after receiving information she was leaving the country to join ISIS, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said.

The Kenyan government says Mohamed Mohamud is the mastermind of Thursday's terrorist attack on university that killed close to 150 people.

Kenya begins a manhunt for Mohamed Mohamud -- the man it blames for the Garissa university attack in which 147 died -- as more horrific stories of the massacre emerge.

"They're always facing down, and they're shot in the heads, around the back," a St. John's ambulance worker says of the victims of the Al-Shabaab attack in Garissa that left 147 dead.

Young girls in Nima, a slum in north Accra, are receiving coding lessons in a classroom, located above a local mosque.

Widely regarded as the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia is one of the world's largest producers of the popular brew.