Tag: Chibok girls

Nigeria: Fears for captive Chibok girls as Boko Haram forced to flee

February 6, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Lake Chad, Nigeria

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and his fighters have fled their base in the Sambisa Forest for Konduga, an area closer to Borno state capital Maiduguri, reports Nigeria’s Daily Trust. The insurgents have taken with them an “unspecified number” of captives, believed to include the remaining Chibok schoolgirls. Following the . . . Read More

‘Chibok girl’ asks parents to ‘embrace Islam’ in Boko Haram video

January 15, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Nigeria

Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show some of the Chibok schoolgirls still in captivity. “In the video, a girl dressed in a full niqab [Islamic dress] appeals to her parents to embrace Islam,” the BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty reports. “Dressed in a blue and white niqab, the young . . . Read More

Another Chibok girl rescued, 112 still missing

January 5, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Nigeria

The Nigerian Army says it has rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram from the north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014. The girl, identified as Salomi Pogu, was found on 4 January in Pulka, in the north-eastern state of Borno, said the Army in . . . Read More

Award for man who brokered release of Chibok girls

September 19, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali, Refugees, UN

Mr Mustapha and his son who in a nursery class at the school. Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School (I), Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. 17 May 2017

A 58-year-old Nigerian lawyer who brokered the release of 82 Chibok girls taken hostage by Boko Haram has been named as the 2017 winner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Nansen Refugee Award. Zannah Mustapha won the prestigious honour, which recognises extraordinary humanitarian work on behalf of . . . Read More

Freed Chibok girls finally head to university and home

September 14, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Yola

Some of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014 will start at the American University in Yola, Adamawa state this month, the Nigerian government says. Of the 276 girls abducted three years ago, 106 have been either found or freed so far. Eighty-two girls were released in . . . Read More

Boko Haram defector calls others to repent and leave

September 4, 2017 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Yobe

A Boko Haram defector has called on his former fellow fighters to repent and leave the Islamist group. Bana Umar, from Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Banki, was 27 when he joined Boko Haram in 2014, the same year the group kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from their dormitory in the town . . . Read More

‘I identify with Chibok parents, I too am a victim, I lost my son’ – UN award winner Rebecca Dali

August 21, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, EYN, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

Rebecca Dali’s son Timothy, 18, left the house one evening, telling her he was going to visit his friend. “Are you sure?” she asked. It was immediately after the 2011 Nigerian elections, when inter-religious tensions were high. His friend lived across town, in an area where Timothy might be at . . . Read More

Nigeria: outrage at Chibok kidnappings ‘inspired’ Boko Haram to use female bombers

August 16, 2017 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Nigeria, Terrorism

As another attack by female suicide bombers in Nigeria leaves 27 dead, a new report claims that Boko Haram only started using women and girls in bomb attacks in response to the global outrage triggered by the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl abductions. The Exploding stereotypes report, by the Combating Terrorism Center . . . Read More

42 Chibok girls graduate from secondary school

July 28, 2017 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Education, Katsina, Nigeria, Plateau

Jubilant scenes after 81 Chibok girls were reunited with their families in May. Some of the first escapees were able to recommence their secondary-school education and graduated this week. (Photo: Getty Images)

From the 57 Chibok girls who escaped Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria shortly after their kidnapping in 2014, 42 of them graduated from secondary school last Tuesday (26 July). The girls were sponsored to study at private schools by the Borno state government and the non-profit organisation Girl Child Concern, . . . Read More

Nigerian woman wins UN award for work re-integrating Boko Haram victims

July 26, 2017 Nigeria Chibok girls, EYN, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali

A Nigerian aid worker who works with victims of Boko Haram’s insurgency in the north-east has won the 2017 UN Sergio Vieira de Mello Award. Dr Rebecca Dali, Executive Director of the Centre for Caring, Empowerment, and Peace Initiatives (CCEPI), won it because her centre is “at its best” in . . . Read More

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