Michelle Faul, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

In this image made from video taken on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, local people survey the scene after a church roof collapsed in Uyo, Nigeria. Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday's tragedy, medical director Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told The Associated Press. (Ukeme Eyibio via AP)

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Nigerian church collapses, 160 dead, says hospital director

by Hilary Uguru Associated Press, and Michelle Faul Associated PressDecember 12, 2016

WARRI, Nigeria — Mortuaries overflowed with bodies Sunday from a church collapse in southern Nigeria that killed at least 160 people, and worshippers said construction of the building had been rushed.Hundreds had been inside the Reigners Bible Church…

Family members of the Nigerian Chibok kidnapped girls depart to meet the Nigerian minister of women affairs in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Nigeria's government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their Boko Haram Islamic extremist captors, a community leader said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

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Many girls unwilling to leave Boko Haram captors

by Michelle Faul Associated Press, and Oyekanmi Olalekan Associated PressOctober 18, 2016

This undated image taken from video distributed Sunday shows an alleged Boko Haram soldier standing in front of a group of girls alleged to be some of the 276 abducted Chibok schoolgirls held since April 2014, in an unknown location.

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Boko Haram: Some abducted girls killed in airstrikes

by Michelle Faul Associated Press, and Haruna Umar Associated PressAugust 14, 2016

FILE -In this Monday, April, 21. 2014 file photo, soldiers stand guard in front of the government secondary school Chibok, in Chibok. Nigeria. One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited Wednesday, May 18, 2016 with her mother — the first of the Chibok girls to be freed since the mass abduction. Nigerian hunters found the young woman and baby wandering near the Sambisa Forest and her uncle describes her as traumatized. (AP Photo/ Haruna Umar File)

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Nigerian girl taken in 2014 found alive

by Michelle Faul Associated Press, and Haruna Umar Associated PressMay 19, 2016

People march during a protest calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school who were abducted two years ago, in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April 14, 2016. A schoolmate says she cried with joy when she saw a Boko Haram video appearing to show some of Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls, with images of tearful parents recognizing their daughters, who have not been heard from since the mass abduction by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram two years ago.(AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga)

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Two years marked since girls taken

by Michelle Faul Associated PressApril 14, 2016