Tag: Chibok girls

Four Chibok girls to start university in US in August

July 21, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Education, Nigeria

It’s many thousands of miles from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno, Nigeria, to university in the United States. But, following their kidnapping on 14 April 2014, it’s a journey that a handful of young girls from remote, rural north-eastern Nigeria have now made. (Their fellow escapees remain in Nigeria, . . . Read More

Boko Haram’s boy soldiers: a ‘stolen and forgotten generation’

June 26, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls

Nigerians fled their homes in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa States due to the clashes between Nigeria's militant group Boko Haram and Nigerian Army, hold on life under tough conditions at a camp in Damari, Adamawa State, Nigeria on December 6, 2014.

The estimated 10,000 boy soldiers taken by Islamist militant group Boko Haram since the start of their insurgency in Nigeria in 2009 have lived through experiences many cannot imagine – nor would they want to – including ritualistic infant slaughter and bathing of hands in blood. But unlike the abduction . . . Read More

Chibok escapee ‘not one of 276’, exactly a year after first girl found. 113 still missing

May 19, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria

A lone schoolgirl abducted from Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has managed to escape, and has been found by Nigeria’s government troops earlier this week, reports the BBC. However, although from the same school as the 276 kidnapped in one night April 14, 2014, she was . . . Read More

UPDATE: New video by Boko Haram claims some Chibok schoolgirls chose not to be rescued

May 15, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari

Fathers identify their kidnapped daughters. shown in a Nigerian newspaper, in September 2015. Photo courtesy Open Doors.

Boko Haram released a video on Friday (12 May) claiming to show Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of last week’s swap deal that saw 82 girls freed by the Nigerian government. In the three-minute video, a girl dressed in a veil and holding a gun says . . . Read More

Chibok parents relieved: ‘Grace is out!’

May 11, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, Gwoza, Muhammadu Buhari, Trauma, West Africa

Some of the girls who were released from Boko Haram captivity on Saturday. They are still being held in a centre in Abuja for screening and rehabilitation. Photo: Getty Images

The 82 Chibok girls who were released on 6 May by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, have not returned to their families yet, but are held in a centre in the capital Abuja for screening and rehabilitation. However, Peter Pogu, father of one of the girls, was overjoyed . . . Read More

Nigerian officials stole food meant for starving victims of Boko Haram

May 9, 2017 Nigeria Borno, Chibok girls, Maiduguri, Yola

Despite the good news of 82 freed ‘Chibok girls’, 14 million are in need of aid in north-east Nigeria, the centre of the Boko Haram insurgency. Of the 14 million, more than half are “severely food insecure”. The UN describes the unfolding disaster in the region as the “greatest crisis on . . . Read More

500 children taken by Boko Haram from one northern Nigeria city

April 28, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Damasak, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Refugees, Women

As thousands of refugees return home to northern Nigeria, they are discovering with dismay the scale of devastation left by Boko Haram. In Damasak (Borno State), a city once occupied by the Islamist extremists, hundreds of children are missing. Most of them were seized by Boko Haram in autumn 2014. . . . Read More

Good Friday marks 3 years of agony for Chibok parents

April 13, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari

For the families of the 195 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitories three years ago tomorrow (14 April 2014), grief and despair have been compounded by fear, as the perpetrators of their agony continue to terrorise their town and carry out further abductions with impunity. Since Boko Haram jihadists abducted . . . Read More

Unicef: Boko Haram increasing use of child suicide bombers

April 13, 2017 Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chad, Chibok girls, Children, New York, Niger, Nigeria, West Africa

As it torments West Africa, Boko Haram is increasingly turning to children to carry out its crimes. One of every five suicide bombers deployed by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, usually a girl, according to a report released on Tuesday (11 April) by Unicef. . . . Read More

22 girls and women kidnapped as Boko Haram strikes again in north-east Nigeria

April 6, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Nigeria

Boko Haram has abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in north-east Nigeria, residents and vigilantes say. In the first attack on 30 March, the jihadists raided the village of Pulka near the border with Cameroon, where they kidnapped 18 girls. In the second incident, outside the village . . . Read More

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