There is a real problem in Northeastern Nigeria that is getting very little exposure in the media. While everyone is thoroughly updated on and Real Housewives of Atlanta drama, there are 234 missing Nigerian girls who are in a constant state of danger.

Parents of these girls are being fed wrong information as they search the country side for the offenders but are now being told to stop their search or the girls will be killed.

“It’s been 16 days since the girls’ abduction and no progress has been made on finding them, either by the military or machete-wielding parents searching the countryside. The search for the kidnapped girls also has been compromised by misinformation. Immediately after the kidnapping, the Nigerian military claimed to have found and freed the girls, and captured one of the terrorists involved. This claim, however, was proven wrong and ultimately retracted. And, now, the Boko Haram kidnappers are threatening to kill the girls if search operations don’t cease,” according to a report by Voice of America.

Northeastern Nigeria has been declared in a state of emergency for the past year The Guardian reports. The school from which the girls were taken from is the only school available in their region.