Gordon Brown has urged governments across the world to urgently step up their support for Nigeria after hundreds of children were abducted by gunmen from their schools.

The former UK prime minister called on the international community to “super-charge” efforts by President Bola Tinubu to install high-tech tracking systems to find the missing pupils.

He also wants world leaders to support the installation of school-side, secure perimeter fencing, telecommunications, security cameras and alarm systems needed to better defend children from future abduction threats.

The appeal from Mr Brown, who is the United Nations’ education envoy, comes amid a wave of kidnaps this month, which has seen hundreds of children snatched from their schools by gunmen holding them to ransom.

Some 303 pupil

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