Fresh Boko Haram abductions threaten gains for girls’ education in Nigeria
Thomson Reuters Foundation The kidnapping of dozens more schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram militants could undermine efforts to keep girls in schools and threaten progress on women’s education in the region, experts said on Friday. At least 76 schoolgirls from the village of Dapchi were snatched by a faction of the Islamist group […]
Chibok girls changed by shame, Stockholm syndrome, say experts
Thomson Reuters Foundation Connections formed by years of captivity and shame at marrying militants might explain why some Chibok girls have chosen not to return home from their Boko Haram ordeal, experts say. Their militant Islamist captors released a video on Monday showing some of the remaining girls – who were kidnapped from the northeast […]
Boko Haram “Chibok girls” video a propaganda counter-strike, say analysts
Thomson Reuters Foundation The release of a video purporting to show some of the Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram apparently happy with their lives is a propaganda strike to show the Islamist group is unbowed, security experts said on Monday. The video shows a group of about 12 teenage girls and young women, […]
Diaries offer hope to family of Chibok bride in captivity
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rebecca Samuel holds up photos of her eldest daughter, kidnapped from Chibok in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram in 2014. PICTURE: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Odera Okakpu Listening to her young daughter read aloud from a bright yellow diary in their home in Nigeria, Rebecca Samuel struggled to hold back tears. But these were […]
POSTCARDS: FOUR CHIBOK SCHOOLGIRLS TO START UNIVERSITY IN AUGUST
ILLIA DJADI, of World Watch Monitor reports on how a chairt aimed at helping children pursue their studies in areas affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria, have helped 10 of the girls kidnapped from their school Chibok to pursue their education…
New video by Boko Haram claims some Chibok schoolgirls chose not to be rescued
World Watch Monitor Boko Haram released a video on Friday 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 she is Maida Yakubu, […]
Nigeria exchanges 82 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram for prisoners
RNS/Reuters A girl holds a sign during a march to mark the one-year anniversary of the mass kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from a secondary school in Chibok by Boko Haram militants, in Abuja on 14th April, 2015. PICTURE: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more […]
Escaped Chibok schoolgirl calls on international community not to forget those still in captivity
A Nigerian schoolgirl who managed to escape from Boko Haram militants after being kidnapped from her Chibok school in 2014 has called on the international community to remember those still in captivity. The abduction of 276 schoolgirls in the north-eastern town of Chibok in April, 2014, by Islamist militants caused a global outcry – including […]
Nigerian Army recovers 24th Chibok victim
The Nigerian Army says it has found another of the more than 200 girls kidnapped nearly three years ago from their school in Chibok, Nigeria, by terror group Boko Haram. World Watch Monitor reports that Rakiya Abubakar Gali is the daughter of Abubakar Gali Mulima and Habiba Abubakar of Chibok, according to preliminary information from […]
Another Chibok schoolgirl escapes with baby in Nigeria – report
World Watch Monitor A Nigerian Government spokesman, Sani Usman, told media another girl, believed to be one of the nearly 300 Chibok school girls kidnapped by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram in April 2014, was discovered in Pulka in northern Borno State. Maryam Ali Maiyanga was found by soldiers screening escapees from Boko Haram’s […]