Nigeria’s military has told the BBC that some of the
schoolgirls abducted from Chibok town in April by
Islamist militants are now free.
Army spokesman Brig Gen Chris Olukolade did not
say how many girls were now in military custody,
saying the exercise was “ongoing”.
More than 200 girls were seized by Boko Haram
fighters from a boarding school in the north-eastern
Borno state.
It caused worldwide outrage and sparked a social
media campaign.
Protests were organised under the hashtag #
BringBackOurGirls, calling on the authorities to do
more to free the girls, who had gone to the school in
Chibok from surrounding areas to take their final
year exams.
Boko Haram’s name translates as “Western education
is forbidden”, and it has carried out several attacks on
schools and colleges, seeing them as a symbol of
Western culture.
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