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Chibok girls are forced to join Nigeria's Bok

UK: Some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram in Nigeria are said to have been forced to join the Islamist militant group. According to certain witnesses, some are being used to terrorize other captives, and even forced to carry out killings by themselves. Even though the testimony cannot be verified, Amnesty International said that other girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been forced to fight for the militants. Boko Haram, the hard-core militant group has so far killed some ...

Women freed by Boko Haram reveal captivity ho

Abuja: Women hostages held by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria said that some fellow captives were stoned to death as the army approached to rescue them. The women described the merciless nature of Boko Haram fighters who started pelting stone at them when they were refused to run away as the army came nearer to the camp. The army had rescued a group comprising of nearly 300 women and children and brought out of the vast Sambisa forest to a government camp. According to the military offi...

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Boko Haram retakes NE town from Nigerian army

Maiduguri (Nigeria): It has been reported that some suspected Boko Haram revolutionists have forced hundreds of Nigerian soldiers to flee Marte, a border town along the shores of Lake Chad. A local community leader Imamu Habeeb said that the terrorists, numbering over 2,000, were appeared from various directions and attacked the soldiers in Kirenowa town and adjoining communities in Marte. There were encounters over the night while the continued fight forced hundreds of soldiers to flee. from Bo...

About 2,000 women and girls are kidnapped wit

Lagos: As per the manipulations of Amnesty International, Boko Haram has kidnapped at least 2,000 women and girls since the beginning of last year. A year before, the terrorist group had abducted about 219 Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok, in the north eastern state of Borno. The heinous act of kidnapping teenagers had brought unprecedented world attention regarding the brutality of the insurgency. But the human rights group said that it had documented 38 cases of abduction by the Islamist gr...

Boko Haram abducted children forget their own

Abuja: It is understood that about 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon are not remembering their own names or origins. The exciting information was from an aid official who recently visited the released children. Meanwhile, Christopher Fomunyoh, a director for the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) has revealed that the children aged between 5 and 18 were not able to speak English, French or any local languages. These children were found at a camp in northern Came...

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