Kidnapped Nigeria girls, South Sudan fighting, Ethiopia's Oromo and Italy-Ethiopia invasion

1. Last month at least 200 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school dorms in the town of Chibok, in northeast Nigeria. They were taken away in the middle of the night by the Islamic group Boko Haram. Most of the girls have still not been found. Nigerians have protested the situation in the country’s capital, Abuja. One speaker at the protest said "If this happened anywhere else in the world – more than 200 girls kidnapped and no information for more than two weeks – the country would be brought to a standstill." We'll look at how the government has handled the case with Kelechi Kalu, Ohio State University associate provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs.

2. Fighting between the South Sudanese army and rebels continued on Monday in the town of Bentiu, an important oil town. The violence that has plagued the country for the last several months. Thousands of people have been forced from the homes due to the increasing violence and the UN has warned about the potential for famine in many parts of the country. We get an update on the humanitarian situation with Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

3. Ethnic Oromo students have been out on the streets of Addis Ababa, protesting against a new urban development plan unveiled in April. The students say the city’s master plan would allow the developers to swallow up surrounding Oromo towns and rural villages. On Tuesday, Oromo organizations around the globe, including the Oromo Community Association of Chicago, will hold marches to show their support of fellow students in Ethiopia. We’ll talk with Ahmed Badasso, current president for the Oromo Community Association of Chicago and Seenaa Jimjimo, an advisor to the Oromo Community Association of Chicago. They are helping to organize the Chicago event.

4. On May 5th, 1936, the Italian army occupied Ethiopia's capital city. In a dramatic speech before the League of Nations, Emperor Haile Selassie, who had gone into exile, warned "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow." Italy's stay would be short-lived. Ethiopia boasts itself as the only African nation to not be colonized. Historian John Schmidt tells us what happened.


Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue kidnapped schoolgirls of a government secondary school Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria. Wednesday, April, 30. 2014, Scores of girls and young women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors, a civic organization reported Wednesday. At the same time, the Boko Haram terrorist network is negotiating over the students' fate and is demanding an unspecified ransom for their release, a Borno state community leader told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/ Gbemiga Olamikan)