How U.S. Hopes To Jump-Start Stalled Campaign To Save Nigerian Girls

Published July 17, 2014 at 4:31 PM EDT

More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the extremist group Boko Haram in April are still missing. To find out what the U.S. is doing to help, Audie Cornish speaks with Linda Thomas-Greenfield, assistant secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs at the State Department.

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