‘Be patient’ Chibok parents tell families of Nigeria’s latest kidnap victims
Thomson Reuters Foundation Yakubu Nkeki knows just what to say when he meets the parents of 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month. His daughter was among some 220 Chibok girls abducted by the insurgents in 2014, which shot Nigeria’s nine-year-old conflict with Boko Haram […]
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 […]
Nigeria records first conviction over Chibok girls kidnapping
World Watch Monitor Some 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok in north-east Nigeria in 2014. PICTURE: World Watch Monitor A man involved in the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria in 2014 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Haruna Yahaya, 35, is the first member of the radical […]
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 […]
LIFESTORY: UN AWARD WINNER REBECCA DALI “IDENTIFIES” WITH CHIBOK PARENTS
The recipient of this year’s UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award, Dr Rebecca Dali recalls how her own loss helped her to comfort the traumatised parents of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school in Nigeria in 2014 and her own encounters with members of the terror group…
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 […]
“Alarming” surge in number of children used in bomb attacks by Boko Haram, says UNICEF
This year has seen an “alarming surge” in the use of children, in particular girls, to carry out violent attacks by terror group Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region, UNICEF has warned. A report launched by the organisation this week, Silent Shame: Bringing out the voices of children caught in the Lake Chad crisis, shows […]