MORE than two years after she was kidnapped by militants, one of Nigeria’s famous “Chibok girls” has reportedly been found along with a baby and a man claiming to be her husband. Residents of the area say that the girl, Amina Ali Nkeki, escaped a “highly fortified” camp and was picked up by a vigilante on the fringes of the Sambisa forest. This is an enormous area of land that was once a game reserve and is now the last stronghold of Boko Haram, a jihadist group. After a brief reunion with her mother, she is being carted off to see the president, a former general who has made defeating the jihadists a priority.
The attack in which she was taken was particularly audacious, even for Boko Haram, which has killed 20,000 people and reduced Nigeria’s north-east to rubble. In April 2014 the group rounded up 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, a nondescript town in Borno state. A few dozen of them managed to steal away that night, but the fate of the remaining 219 is unknown. Videos released by the terrorists suggest that some are alive, and other captives of Boko Haram who have managed to escape say they have seen some of the “Chibok girls” in...Continue reading
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