97 Boko Haram abductees freed in Nigeria

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Original headline: Chibok girls: Second schoolgirl rescued - Nigerian army

Source: BBC


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Boko Haram abductees freed in Nigeria

20 May 2016 Africa

The Nigerian army says it has freed 97 women and girls from Boko Haram, including one of the more than 200 girls abducted from Chibok school.

However, Chibok campaigners say that while the girl in question was a pupil at the school, she was actually kidnapped from her home elsewhere.

This comes days after the first of the Chibok girls was freed.

The Islamist militant group has seized thousands of women and girls in northern Nigeria, rights groups say.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36338989

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1. Nigeria: 2nd Chibok girl rescued was not taken from school

Source: Associated Press

Nigeria: 2nd Chibok girl rescued was not taken from school

Michele Faul, Associated Press 11:34 a.m. EDT May 20, 2016

LAGOS, Nigeria — A second “Chibok girl” rescued by Nigeria’s military in a forest battle with Islamic extremists was kidnapped from her home village and is not among 218 students missing from the 2014 mass abduction from the school by Boko Haram that sparked worldwide outrage.

The girl is one of three daughters of a pastor of the Nigerian branch of the U.S.-based Church of the Brethren, kidnapped by Boko Haram in two separate attacks, community leader Pogu Bitrus told The Associated Press. It’s an indication of how widespread and ubiquitous are the Islamic extremists’ tactic of kidnapping girls and young women used as sex slaves and boys and young men forced to join their fight to create an Islamic caliphate.

Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said soldiers freed the girl after a Thursday night battle in the northeastern Sambisa Forest in which it liberated 97 women and children and killed 35 extremists. He claimed she was among missing girls abducted more than two years ago from a boarding school in Chibok.

Bitrus said the girl, believed to be about 15 when she was seized, was a student at the same school but was home on vacation at the time of the mass kidnapping. She was later snatched from her village of Madagali, near the town of Chibok, he said, but did not know when exactly.

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/20/nigeria-2nd-chibok-girl-rescued-not-taken-school/84651592/