Tag: girls
Girls kidnapped in Niger
Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in south-eastern Niger, a local mayor said.
Boukar Mani Orthe, mayor of Toumour in Niger's Diffa...
Hundreds of women and girls abducted in South Sudan
Government and rebel forces in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls this year with many raped and forced into sexual...
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...
Buhari meets Dapchi girls
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met 107 schoolgirls freed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram and promised to secure the release of their...
Abducted Dapchi girls back home
Islamist militants drove scores of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls back to where they were captured a month ago on Wednesday and abruptly set...
No rest until last kidnapped girl released – Buhari
Nigeria's president told parents of 110 abducted schoolgirls he ordered all military and security agencies to search for them, in his first...
Campaign group threatens to sue Nigerian government
The Nigerian group which sparked a global campaign for the safe return of schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 said this week it would...
Nigeria to negotiate release of Dapchi girls
Nigeria's presidency plans to negotiate the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in Dapchi last month, rather than use a...
Search for missing Dapchi girls extended
Nigeria's government extended the search for 110 schoolgirls abducted last month to neighbouring countries, the information ministry said.
The girls were taken from...
Dapchi – “another mindless, godless abduction” in Nigeria
When Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office three years ago, eradicating the "mindless, godless" militants of Boko Haram and rescuing hundreds of...
Dapchi parents to join Bring Back Our Girls movement
Parents of schoolgirls abducted in north-eastern Nigeria plan to join the Bring Back Our Girls movement that gained global prominence in a...
Girls still missing after Boko Haram Nigeria attack
The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told residents of Dapchi 76 of their schoolgirls reportedly rescued from Islamist Boko Haram kidnappers were...
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.
Of...
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...
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...
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...
Eighty-two Chibok girls exchanged for Boko Haram prisoners
Boko Haram militants released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 they kidnapped from Chibok three years ago in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
