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Abducted students rank 3rd on AFP’s 2014 influential list

The over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014 by members of terrorist sect, Boko Haram.

The abducted Chibok Girls have been ranked among the most influential people of 2014 by news agency, Agence France Press (AFP).

The girls are 3rd on the list which is topped by Russian President, Vladimir Putin and has the leader of the Islamic State, aka ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in second place.

Others on the list, which was compiled by 380 journalists, are Pope Francis, imprisoned paralympian, Oscar Pistorius and Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai who was also on the list in 2013.

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