{"id":31619,"date":"2017-01-06T02:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-chibok-girl-found-with-her-six-month-old\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T02:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:02:53","slug":"nigerian-chibok-girl-found-with-her-six-month-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-chibok-girl-found-with-her-six-month-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Chibok girl found with her six-month-old baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby.}<\/p>\n<p>She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in April 2014. About 200 of them are still in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 were released in October in a deal brokered by the International Red Cross. Others have escaped or been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Over Christmas, 21 of the young women freed under the October deal returned home for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>However, family members told the BBC that they were kept in a politician&#8217;s house and barred from going to their family homes.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the office of state governor Kashim Shettima acknowledged that &#8220;armed soldiers&#8230; escorted the 21 girls to Chibok and remain their strict guards throughout Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the girls had reportedly been held in a secret location for debriefing by the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari said the army had driven Boko Haram&#8217;s militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold in north-eastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terrorists are on the run and no longer have a place to hide,&#8221; Mr Buhari said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced over two million during its seven-year battle to create an Islamic caliphate in the north-east of the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17484 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93279771_chibok.jpg\" alt=\"Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby.} She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria&#8217;s military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks. 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