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US reducing surveillance flights in search for missing Nigerian girls

By Ashe Schow

Published July 1, 2014 5:07pm ET

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US reducing surveillance flights in search for missing Nigerian girls — Women sing slogans during a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria, May 28. (AP/Sunday Alamba) | Sunday Alamba

U.S. surveillance and reconnaissance flights working to find more than 200 missing Nigerian girls are now flying at an “intermittent” rate, according to Reuters.

President Obama announced in May that he would send U.S. troops into Chad to “support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area.”

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