Sambisa forest Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sambisa-forest/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sambisa forest Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sambisa-forest/ 32 32 Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls found with her baby https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/kidnapped-chibok-schoolgirls-found-baby/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/kidnapped-chibok-schoolgirls-found-baby/ Nigerian soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents nearly three years ago, along with her baby. She’s been welcomed at the official residence of Borno state’s governor. Boko Haram terrorists abducted 276 schoolgirls writing exams in Chibok in  April 2014. Last May one girls escaped […]

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]]> Nigerian soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents nearly three years ago, along with her baby.

She’s been welcomed at the official residence of Borno state’s governor.

Boko Haram terrorists abducted 276 schoolgirls writing exams in Chibok in  April 2014.

Last May one girls escaped and the International Red Cross helped negotiate the release of 21 more last October.

Another girl was freed by the army raiding an extremist camp in the Sambisa Forest.

The latest girl freed is Rakiya Abubakar, who has a six-month-old  baby.

She was among more that 1 000 suspects detained in recent weeks in the Sambisa Forest and identified  by two freed schoolgirls.

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]]> Nigerian rescued schoolgirls being screened https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/nigerian-rescued-schoolgirls-being-screened/ Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/04/nigerian-rescued-schoolgirls-being-screened/ The Nigerian army says that it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women in the Sambisa Forest, but it can’t confirm if any of those freed are the schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago. The army announced the rescue on Twitter says says it’s now screening and profiling the girls and women. More than 200 schoolgirls […]

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]]> The Nigerian army says that it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women in the Sambisa Forest, but it can’t confirm if any of those freed are the schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago.

The army announced the rescue on Twitter says says it’s now screening and profiling the girls and women.

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok in northeastern Nigeria by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram just over a year ago.
The militants took the schoolgirls in trucks into the Sambisa Forest and the girls have been missing since.
The plight of the schoolgirls has grabbed international attention and the BringBackOurGirls campaign.

The Nigerian army announced two weeks ago that it is going into Sambisa Forest, which is a center for the Boko Haram fighters.

 

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