18/05/2016

Chibok girl kidnapped by Boko Haram two years ago 'found pregnant and traumatised'



CNN obtained a video thought to have been made in December of a group of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram CNN

CNN obtained a video thought to have been made in December of a group of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram CNN
One of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from a boarding school in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been found by soldiers, her uncle has said.

Amina Ali Nkeki is the first of the 219 so-called Chibok girls to be freed since the mass abduction that attracted attention around the world more than two years ago.
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Yakubu Nkeki said his 19-year-old niece is pregnant and traumatised and was found wandering in a forest. He said she was brought to Chibok on Tuesday night for her identity to be verified and reunited with her mother. Her father died while she was held captive, he said.
Mr Nkeki said the soldiers then took the young woman away to a military camp in the town of Damboa.
Community leader Pogu Bitrus says other Chibok girls may also have been rescued by soldiers hunting down Boko Haram in the remote north-eastern Sambisa Forest on Tuesday night.
He said he was working with officials to establish their identity.
Boko Haram Islamic extremists stormed and fire bombed the Government Girls Secondary School at Chibok on April 14 2014 and seized 276 girls who were preparing to take science exams. Dozens escaped within hours, but 219 remained missing.
The inability of Nigeria's government and military to rescue them led, in part, to the electoral defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan last year.
It is not known how many thousands of girls, boys and young women have been kidnapped by Boko Haram in a nearly seven-year-old insurgency that has killed some 20,000 people and spread across Nigeria's borders.
Nigeria's military has reported freeing thousands this year as they have forced the extremists from towns and into strongholds in the sprawling Sambisa Forest. Boko Haram has turned to soft targets using suicide bombers.
Local media in northern Nigeria said the girl had been found by the Civilian Joint Task Force, a vigilante group set up independently of the Nigerian army to assist in tackling the jihadist group.
The news was first reported by activists and confirmed by the chairman of the Chibokgirls Parents community group.
Two years ago, the Islamic extremists seized 276 girls who had gathered for science exams at the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok. Some managed to escape, jumping off trucks as the Islamic extremists drove them toward the Sambisa Forest.
The gunmen arrived in Chibok late at night, then raided the school dormitories and loaded 276 girls on to trucks.
The capture of the Chibok girls sparked an international reaction, with people around the world uniting behind the #BringBackOurGirls cause.
Some of the girls managed to escape within hours of their kidnapping, mostly by jumping off the lorries and running off into the bushes.
As time passed, focus drifted away from #BringBackOurGirls. What started as a call to action soon turned to recriminations against the Nigerian government, accused of not doing enough to tackle Boko Haram in its heartlands.
At the end of last year, the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari sparked controversy by claiming the militant group was "technically defeated", though the Chibok girls were still missing.
Terror attacks claimed by the jihadists continued, however, and Mr Buhari was forced to defend his statement. In February, he claimed he had meant Boko Haram "can no longer mobilise enough forces to attack police and army barracks and destroy aircraft like they used to".
Earlier this month, CNN broadcast a video which appeared to show a group of the schoolgirls still alive. Reportedly shot by militants on Christmas Day 2015, its veracity was confirmed by a number of the 15 girls' parents.

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