Tag: Chibok
Second Nigerian “Chibok girl” freed in a week seven years after...
A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram militants was freed this week, Borno state's governor...
Chibok abduction confessions
Eight suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram confessed to involvement in the 2014 abduction of some 270 girls from Chibok,...
Chibok girls release delayed
Talks between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram militants on the release of schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok in 2014 have been set...
ISS: An attack on Nigeria’s schoolgirls is an attack on education
On 19 February 2018, militants arrived in trucks at the Government Girls Science and Technology College in Dapchi, Nigeria, wielding guns and...
First person convicted for Chibok kidnapping
Nigeria convicted the first person to stand trial for the Chibok girls kidnapping, a crime that made Islamist militant group Boko Haram...
Boko Haram releases apparent Chibok girls’ video
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram released a video purportedly showing some girls kidnapped from the north-east Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014.
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Nigerian military rescues schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram in 2014
The Nigerian military said on Thursday it had rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok...
UN award for Chibok negotiator
A Nigerian lawyer who helped secure the release of dozens of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 was announced winner...
Nigeria’s freed Chibok girls to return home ‘fully recovered’
More than 100 girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014 are ready to...
Chibok girls says kidnap was accidental
The mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok - the biggest publicity coup of Boko Haram's jihadist insurgency -...
Nigeria urged to rescue all Chibok girls
A United Nations human rights committee called on the Nigerian government to step up efforts to rescue all women and girls abducted...
Chibok girl escapes
Another Nigerian schoolgirl from the kidnapped group known as the "Chibok girls" escaped from captivity by Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, a presidential...
Some Chibok girls to return to school
The 82 girls freed by Boko Haram after being held captive for three years are still waiting to be reunited with their...
Nigeria in talks to release remaining captive Chibok girls
Nigeria's government is in talks to release the remaining captive Chibok girls, the president said on Thursday, a day before the third...
Nigeria’s talks with Boko Haram over Chibok girls could lead to...
Talks between Nigeria and Boko Haram militants over the release of some 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok almost three years ago could...
Pressure mounts on Nigeria to rescue Chibok girls
Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram's most infamous attack after the...
Another Chibok girl found
Nigerian soldiers have found a schoolgirl one of more than 200 pupils kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram from their school...
Freed Chibok girls spared abuse and rape – source
The 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants last month say they were not abused or raped during two-and-a-half years' captivity...
Abducted Chibok schoolgirl found with baby
One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by jihadist group Boko Haram from their school in north-east Nigeria's Chibok in 2014 has...
Buhari tells released Chibok girls he will “redouble” rescue efforts
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday told a group of 21 girls released by Islamist militants last week that he will "redouble"...
Boko Haram faction ready to negotiate release of more Chibok girls
The Islamic State-allied faction of Boko Haram which last week freed 21 of more than 200 Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014...
Boko Haram frees 21 kidnapped Chibok girls
Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town...
Return to school helps former Boko Haram bride move on from...
When Nigerian teenager Zara John was rescued from Boko Haram captivity last year, she was delighted to learn she was pregnant with...
Nigeria would welcome U.N. intermediaries in Boko Haram talks to free...
Nigeria would welcome United Nations representatives as intermediaries in any talks with Boko Haram on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped...
Nigeria would welcome U.N. intermediaries in Boko Haram talks to free...
Nigeria would welcome United Nations representatives as intermediaries in any talks with Boko Haram on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped...
Nigeria would welcome U.N. intermediaries in Boko Haram talks to free...
Nigeria would welcome United Nations representatives as intermediaries in any talks with Boko Haram on the release of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped...
Nigeria would let Boko Haram pick intermediary in talks to free...
Nigeria would let Boko Haram choose a non-profit organisation as an intermediary in any talks on the release of about 200 schoolgirls...
‘I just want to go home’, says first Chibok schoolgirl rescued...
The first of more than 200 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued from Boko Haram after two years in captivity in northeast...
Parents of Nigeria’s missing Chibok girls ‘wounded’ after watching Boko Haram...
Parents of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram more than two years ago said on Monday they felt wounded after watching a...
Boko Haram video claims to show missing Chibok girls
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has published a video apparently showing recent footage of dozens of school girls kidnapped two years ago...
Campaigners question Nigerian army report of second Chibok rescue
Campaigners for more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from their school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria two years ago raised...
Second ‘Chibok girl’ rescued, says Nigerian army
A second girl who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in the...
Nigerian army going in to get Chibok girls, governor says
The Nigerian army is moving in to Boko Haram's final stronghold in the Sambisa forest to rescue more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls...
First missing Chibok girl found
The first of more than 200 schoolgirls missing for over two years after they were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Chibok...
Nigerian schoolgirl rescued after two years as Boko Haram captive
A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls...
ISS: Think Again – What does #BringBackOurGirls mean for Buhari?
Two years ago today, on 14 April 2014, the tiny north-east Nigerian village of Chibok became internationally synonymous with a brutal crime:...
Video of Chibok girls puts pressure on Nigeria’s Buhari
A video showing 15 of the 219 schoolgirls held by the jihadist group Boko Haram has added pressure on the Nigerian government...
Parents of Nigeria’s missing Chibok girls cling to hope of finding...
When Dauda Yama retrieved his mobile phone from a neighbour's house in January this year, he noticed a missed call from his...
Parents of missing Nigeria schoolgirls hope 2 year event reminds world...
Nigerian officials gave permission on Tuesday for a memorial event at a school in northeast Nigeria from where Islamist rebels abducted 276...
Suspected suicide bomber not one of Nigeria’s missing Chibok girls
A suspected suicide bomber intercepted in northern Cameroon last week before she could blow herself up is not one of 219 schoolgirls...
Cameroon delays quizzing of bomber claiming to be Chibok schoolgirl
Cameroon officials delayed on Monday the questioning of a female suicide bomber claiming to be one of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok...
Nigeria launches new investigation of 2014 kidnap of Chibok girls
Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a new investigation into the kidnapping of 219 schoolgirls by Islamist group Boko Haram in April...
World leaders must do more to recover Nigeria’s missing girls-activist
The co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign urged world leaders on Friday to do more to help hunt down Boko...
Nigeria’s president meets campaigners for girls abducted by Boko Haram
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday held his first meeting with campaigners calling for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted...
Freed Nigerian women tell of horror of Boko Haram captivity
Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where...
Nigerian army says rescues more women and children from Sambisa forest
Nigeria's military rescued another set of women and children who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram militia and were being detained in...
Nigeria hopes rescued women can offer clues to missing girls
Nigeria's military said on Wednesday it had transported nearly 300 women and girls rescued from Boko Haram to the hilly border town...
Chibok girls not among group rescued by Nigerian army
More than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their school dormitories by Boko Haram militants last year are not among the nearly 300 girls...
Nigerian forces invade last known Boko Haram stronghold
Nigerian forces backed by warplanes invaded Islamist group Boko Haram's last known stronghold, the Sambisa forest, on Wednesday, in an effort to...
Nigeria’s new president pledges effort to free girls kidnapped a year...
Nigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants...
