Photos show the effects on students of a school in Nigeria after losing US aid

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Students of the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School study during break time, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Ramatu Usman, who was dropped by the school of Future Prowess Islamic Foundation poses for a photo at a desk inside her former class, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) — Students of the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School study during break time, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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10:38 PM on Friday, August 29

By SUNDAY ALAMBA

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The disappearance of U.S. aid in Nigeria’s northeast has threatened a school that supports children who are victims of Boko Haram extremists.

Boko Haram, which since 2009 has sought to establish Islamic law in the conflict-battered region, forbids Western education and first rose to global prominence in 2014 after its mass abduction of students in the Chibok village.

The Associated Press visited the region to document how U.S. funding cuts has resulted in up to 700 students and 20 teachers being let go by an essential school that benefitted from such support.

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