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Nigerian Chibok Girl Found With Baby

The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby....

International

Army Searching For Chibok Girls Seized By Boko Haram

After the Nigerian army claimed victory over Boko Haram in the armed group's forest stronghold, a commander at the...

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Freed Chibok Girls Not Allowed Home For Christmas, Say Families

Families of the Nigerian “Chibok girls” freed by Islamist group Boko Haram say they are being closely guarded and...

International

Freed Chibok Girls Reunited With Their Families For Christmas

More than 20 Nigerian "Chibok girls" who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their...

International

The List of Beautiful Things That Happened In 2016

Portual won the Euros for the first time in history New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival...

International

Nigeria’s Presidency Deny Paying $21million Ransom For Chibok Girls Release

The Presidency has described as untrue and unfair media reports which claimed renewed attacks in Borno State were as a...

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The African Woman

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own...

International

Nigerian Army Rescues Another Chibok Girl

The Nigerian Army says that it has rescued another one of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School...

International

How To Protect the Chibok Girls From Reliving Their Horror

How to protect the Chibok girls from reliving their horror The Chibok girls who moved to the US in 2014 have had to...

International

Boko Haram Overruns Nigerian Military Base In Northeast

Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers...

International

Released Chibok Girls ‘should Be Educated Abroad’

Nigeria's government is negotiating the release of a further 83 of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, but more than 100...

International

Nigeria Denies Boko Haram Prisoner Swap

Boko Haram seized 276 pupils from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven...

International

Boko Haram Frees 21 Chibok Girls

Boko Haram militants handed over 21 missing Chibok schoolgirls to the Nigerian government Thursday morning, according...

International

Group of Chibok Schoolgirls ‘freed’ In Nigeria

Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been freed, a senior Nigerian government official has...

International

Boko Haram Remains Defiant, Threatens To Capture Buhari

In a new video by the Boko Haram, suspected members of the sect said they were plotting to capture President Muhammadu...

International

I’m Willing To Swap Boko Haram Prisoners For the Chibok Girls

Nigeria’s President has again renewed his commitment to the rescue of the Chibok girls, saying government will not...

Africa & World

March into Sambisa, Bring Back Our Girls Dead or Alive – Chibok Chairman

(Nigeria, Premium Times) Apparently traumatized by the protracted wait for the rescue of the over 200 schoolgirls...

Opinion

#BringBackOurGirls and Violent Exploitation of Women in Conflict Zones

The well publicized campaign #bringbackourgirls helped to bring global attention to the often ignored issue of sexual...