African Union Intensified search for kidnapped Chibok girls

The African Union is involved in intensifying efforts to find more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram two months ago, its Ugandan ambassador said Friday in New York. Asked what the AU was doing to help, Mull Katende said it was engaged in "quiet diplomacy, because some of this information, we don't want it to reach those who abducted the children."

"We look forward to their recovery as soon as possible, and all heads of state of the African Union have offered their support," he said after talks between AU and UN counterparts in New York.

The Ugandan diplomat said Nigeria could learn a lesson from his own country's 20-year war against Lords Resistance Army rebels, "on how to isolate Boko Haram from the population."