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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigerian army finds kidnapped Chibok girl with '10-month-old son' |
| 2016-11-06 |
| [DeutscheWelle] Troops have rescued one of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the jihadist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in April 2014. The girl was carrying her 10-month-old son when she was found by troops screening Boko Haram escapees. Nigerian military front man Sani Usman said that the girl, identified as Maryam Ali Maiyanga, was discovered by troops screening escapees from the Boko Haram's base in the Sambisa forest, near the Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... border. "She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son," named Ali, Usman said. "She has been taken to the unit's medical facility for (a) proper medical check up." The campaign group Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), which has close ties to relatives of the kidnapped girls confirmed the release. "We are happy with the news... We have confirmed the name of the freed girl to be among those on our data base," BBOG campaigner Aisha Yesufu told the news agency AFP. "Our hope is that the government will work towards an early release of the remaining girls so that we can bring this sad episode to a close." The campaign group said that Maiyanga, who was number 198 on its register of the kidnapped girls, was from Askira Uba in the Borno district and was kidnapped along with her twin, who remains missing. The rescue came just three weeks after 21 of the kidnapped Chibok girls were released following negotiations between the military and Boko Haram, which were brokered by the Red Thingy and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... Aside from last month's release, the military previously managed to recover just one other of the missing schoolgirls, in May near the border of Sambisa forest. |
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