Breaking: Boko Haram frees abducted women

[jchima]

In a confusing twist of events, Boko Haram insurgents, who allegedly kidnapped about 50 women and girls from two border villages between Adamawa and Borno states have released the women among those kidnapped.

This was revealed by villagers, who disclosed information about the alleged release with newsmen on the telephone from their various hide-outs.

They went ahead to point out that they could not acertain the exact number of those released, but were certain at least 45 of the girls were still under Boko Haram captivity.

Source: Breaking Boko Haram frees abducted women - eReporter

 

[Rikurzhen]

Old women are not as useful as young girls. The report you linked to stated that the young girls were already being married off to the fighters.

 

[waltky]

... continues to use dozens of girls and women in suicide bombings...

Dozens of Women, Children Set Free from Boko Haram
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 | At least a dozen kidnapped women and children have been freed from captivity in Nigeria.

Military spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman released a statement Monday saying the army cleared Boko Haram camps in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. Hundreds have been freed so far, but the Islamic terror group continues to use dozens of girls and women in suicide bombings in the area.

More than 1,000 people have been killed since President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in March with a pledge to annihilate Boko Haram. An estimated 20,000 people have been killed in the 6-year-old uprising and some 2.1 million driven from their homes, some across borders.

Earlier this year, troops from Chad and Nigeria drove out jihadists from 25 towns held for months by Boko Haram, which had declared a caliphate aligned with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

The army succeeded in rescuing a number of hostages this year, but none of the 219 girls abducted in April 2014 from a school in Chibok were among them. The statement did not specify from where the most recently rescued women and children had been kidnapped or how they were doing.

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[Pete7469]

Of course those Tea Party Christians are far more of a menace according to willfully ignorant liberal bed wetters.

 

[waltky]

But not the kidnapped schoolgirls...

Nigerian troops rescue 338 Boko Haram hostages
Oct. 28, 2015 - Nigerian President Buhari has demanded an end to the Boko Haram insurgency.

Nigerian troops rescued 338 hostages of the Islamist radical group Boko Haram in a raid in northeastern Nigeria, the military announced Wednesday. The military killed 30 Boko Haram members, and seized arms and ammunition. The captives, who included 138 women and 192 children, were freed in the attack on the villages of Bulajilin and Manawashin in Nigeria's Sambisa forest, site of a Boko Haram stronghold.

Nigerian soldiers seize ammunition in a raid on a Boko Haram installation in which 338 hostages were freed.​

It was not clear if the hostages included any of the 276 schoolgirls captured in Chibok in April 2014, a Boko Haram action which brought international attention to Nigeria's fight against the radical group.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, elected in May on a platform which includes the defeat of the Islamist group, has ordered his military leaders to end the insurgency -- responsible for the deaths of at least 17,000 people and the relocation of more than 2.5 million others -- by December. "The successful clearance operations and ambushing of terrorists has further degraded them and saved the lives of so many innocent victims of their suicide bombings," said Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman, a Nigerian Army spokesman. The Sambisa offensive came after 61 people died over the weekend in Boko Haram bombings of two mosques in the cities of Yolo and Maiduguri.

Nigerian troops rescue 338 Boko Haram hostages

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US Training Niger Army to Resist Boko Haram
October 28, 2015 — American soldiers have begun training units of Niger's army at the edge of the Sahara Desert, in what a U.S. official calls a “new wave” of military support for African states battling Boko Haram militants.

More training will follow for national armies in Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, the official told VOA, speaking on condition of anonymity. Extremists from Boko Haram are based in northeastern Nigeria, but they have carried out notorious attacks throughout the Lake Chad region - Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Training in Niger began on October 19 at Agadez, the largest city in central Niger, once a center for caravans crossing the Sahara. The Niamey government requested the U.S. mission to Niger, U.S. Africa Command spokesman Chuck Prichard told VOA Wednesday.

Niger soldiers provide security for an anti-Boko Haram summit in Diffa city, Niger​

What training will cover

About 40 American soldiers who arrived last week at Niger-controlled Air Base 201 will provide eight weeks of training to about 150 Nigerien troops. Prichard said instruction will cover basic soldier skills, including small-arms marksmanship. "This training benefits Nigerien military personnel and U.S. Army soldiers who share the mutual security goal of regional stability and security in Africa," said Major General Daryl Williams, the commander of U.S. Army Africa. The U.S. embassy in Niger says the training program is expected to last a few months, with a goal of enhancing “the professional skills of the Nigerien military personnel with an emphasis on airfield security procedures."

U.S. Air Force participation

Some U.S. Air Force members also will be involved in the training at Agadez. The U.S. Africa Command spokesman said airmen will arrive in early 2016, after the Army's two-month program is completed, to teach those same 150 Nigerien soldiers airfield security procedures. Prichard said the U.S military has recently carried out other training in Niger, but "nothing as big as what's going on now." The U.S. Defense Department has about 250 personnel in Niger, providing embassy security, training and intelligence gathering.

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[waltky]

Well it's about time...

Buhari Willing to Negotiate With Boko Haram for Chibok Girls
December 31, 2015 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has told reporters he is willing to negotiate with the kidnappers of the so-called "Chibok girls," who were taken from their school dormitories in 2014.

In his first "media chat" with reporters since taking office in May, Buhari fielded a range of questions Wednesday, including about the group of some 200 girls taken by members of the militant group Boko Haram from the northeastern town of Chibok last year. Buhari said if a "credible leader" of Boko Haram could be found, and the location of the girls could be established, his government is prepared to negotiate without preconditions for their return.

Previous attempts to negotiate were thwarted when it was found government officials were talking with the wrong people. While hundreds of Boko Haram captives have been freed in recent months, none of the Chibok girls have been found to be among them. There are fears that the girls are being used as sex slaves or suicide bombers, as there has been an increase in such attacks being carried out by young women in Nigeria.

Bring Back Our Girls campaigners gather at a candlelight ceremony in Abuja marking the 500th day since the abduction of girls in Chibok, Nigeria.​

President Buhari last week said his government had "technically" won the war against Boko Haram and fulfilled his campaign promise to defeat the group by the end of the year. But on Monday, suspected Boko Haram members killed at least 50 people with multiple suicide bombings, grenades, and gunfire attacks in and around the city of Maiduguri.

The militant group is attempting to create a hardline Islamic state in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria. A report last month said Boko Haram has become the deadliest terrorist group in the world, killing more than 6,000 people in 2014, in addition to several thousand more this year.

Buhari Willing to Negotiate With Boko Haram for Chibok Girls

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Nigeria won't release 2 detainees despite court orders
Dec 30,`15 -- Nigeria's government will not release two prominent detainees despite several court orders for their release, and will not comment on the situation of a third, wounded detainee, President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday.

Buhari, a former military dictator who calls himself a born-again democrat, did not discuss the propriety of defying court orders when he spoke on national TV. "If you see the atrocities these people committed against this country!" Buhari said in justification. "We can't allow them to jump bail." A Federal High Court set no bail conditions and ordered the unconditional release of Biafra separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on Dec. 17. Kanu was detained Oct. 17 on charges recently escalated to terrorism and financing terrorism. His cause led to a civil war that killed 1 million people in the 1960s.

Former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki was detained Nov. 4 after intelligence agents surrounded his home for days to prevent him from leaving the country after a court allowed him bail to seek medical care abroad. Dasuki is accused, among other things, of diverting $2.2 billion meant to buy arms to fight the Boko Haram Islamic uprising. Three courts have ordered his release on bail. "What of the over two million people displaced, most of them orphans whose fathers have been killed?" Buhari asked. "We cannot allow that."

He refused to discuss the situation of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, who was detained with four bullet wounds Dec. 14 in military raids that allegedly killed hundreds of his followers. The army said the raids and bulldozing of Zakzaky's home and Shiite spiritual centers was a response to an alleged Shiite attempt to assassinate Nigeria's army chief. Human Rights Watch has said the raid was unprovoked. Authorities have refused to allow anyone to see Zakzaky. Buhari said he would not comment until an investigation is complete.

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[anotherlife]

Of course those Tea Party Christians are far more of a menace according to willfully ignorant liberal bed wetters.

Liberals are not ignorant. They play the role of middle men, between the public and the anonymous power brokers. They keep the power brokers in power and the public in ....

 

[waltky]

Another missing Chibok schoolgirl found with child...

Nigeria finds Chibok girl kidnapped by Boko Haram, with baby
Jan 5,`17 -- Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria's military said Thursday.

Nearly 300 girls were kidnapped by the insurgents from a government boarding school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, a mass abduction that shocked the world and brought Boko Haram international attention. Most of the girls remain in captivity. In May, one girl escaped. In October, the government negotiated the release of 21 more. Another girl was freed in November in an army raid on an extremist camp in the Sambisa Forest. Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman identified the latest girl to be freed as Rakiya Abubakar and said she has a 6-month-old baby. He said her identity was discovered when soldiers were interrogating some of more than 1,000 suspects detained in recent weeks of army raids on the Sambisa Forest.

The military released a photograph showing Abubakar with mournful eyes, her head covered by a white scarf, and clutching the baby wearing a white beanie cap. A statement from Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said her recovery "raises renewed hope that the other captured girls will one day be reunited with their families, friends and community." Similar optimism was expressed by the Bring Back Our Girls movement - spawned by the failures of the government of Buhari's predecessor. The government of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan initially claimed the mass abduction never happened and was a plot to discredit his administration. "We remain highly hopeful that the rest of our girls will be rescued and reunited with their families," the movement said in a statement, noting that Sunday will mark 1,000 days of captivity for the girls.

Nigeria's government announced that troops two weeks ago destroyed Boko Haram's last stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, and Buhari declared the extremist group was finally "crushed." That raised questions about the whereabouts of the other Chibok girls, believed held in the forest. Some 196 remained missing before Thursday's discovery, though some of the freed girls have said that several in their group have died from things like malaria and snakebite. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau issued a video last week to contradict Buhari's assertion that "the terrorists are on the run, and no longer have a place to hide." Shekau declared that the war was just starting and urged his fighters to keep killing, bombing and abducting people.

Nigeria's government has been criticized over its treatment of the freed girls, who have been sequestered in Abuja, the capital, allegedly for trauma counseling and rehabilitation. The freed girls insisted on being taken to Chibok for Christmas, but they were kept in the home of a local legislator and prevented from attending Christmas service at their EYN Church of the Brethren, supposedly for security reasons. They were not reunited with their parents until the day after Christmas. Chibok is a small Christian enclave following a branch of the U.S.-based Brethren in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria. Many parents of the girls are translating the Bible into local languages.

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[waltky]

It's been 1,000 days since Chibok schoolgirls were kidnapped...

Nigeria faces mounting pressure to rescue girls abducted by Boko Haram 1,000 days ago
January 11, 2017 - Nigeria is facing mounting pressure to find some 200 schoolgirls abducted 1,000 days ago in Boko Haram's most infamous attack after the rescue of 24 girls raised hopes that they are alive.

For more than two years there was no sign of the girls who were kidnapped by the Islamist fighters from a school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria one night in April 2014, sparking global outrage and a celebrity-backed campaign #bringbackourgirls. But the discovery of one of the girls with a baby last May fuelled hopes for their safety, with a further two girls found in later months and a group of 21 released in October in a deal brokered by Switzerland and the International Red Cross.

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Police disrupt a rally by the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which is protesting in Nigeria's capital Abuja to mark 1,000 days since over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria by Islamist sect Boko Haram​

For parents like Rebecca Joseph the return home of the group of 21 girls at Christmas was a bitter-sweet celebration. Her daughter, Elizabeth, is one of an estimated 195 girls still held captive by the jihadist group, which has tried to force some of them to convert to Islam and to marry their captors. "I am happy that some of the girls are returning home even though my own daughter is not among them," Joseph told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the town of Chibok in Borno state. "My prayer is that my daughter and the rest of the girls will be rescued and returned to their families safe."

With last weekend marking 1,000 days since the girls were abducted, President Muhammadu Buhari said he remained committed to ensuring the abducted schoolgirls are reunited with their families "as soon as practicable". "We are hopeful that many more will still return," said Buhari, who came to power in 2015 and replaced a government criticised for not doing enough to find the missing girls. "The tears never dry, the ache is in our hearts," he said in a statement.

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[waltky]

Nigeria: Talks with Boko Haram continue over Chibok girls...

Nigeria marks 3 years since schoolgirls' mass abduction
Apr 14,`17 -- Nigerians on Friday marked three years since the mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists amid anger that government efforts to negotiate their freedom appear to have stalled.

Activists were rallying in the capital, Abuja, and commercial hub Lagos to urge President Muhammadu Buhari's government to do more to free the nearly 200 schoolgirls who remain captive. "It is still a nightmare to me. It is still fresh as if it happened last night," said Rebecca Samuel, whose daughter Sarah remains missing. "The government is trying, but I believe they can do more than what they are doing." She wept and pleaded for a solution. After a few of the girls escaped on their own, Nigeria in October announced the release of 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls after negotiations with the extremist group. It said another group of 83 girls would be released "very soon."

No one has been freed since then. The government this week said negotiations have "gone quite far" but face challenges. It refused to give details, citing security reasons. Buhari on Friday said Nigeria is "willing to bend over backwards" to secure the schoolgirls' release. "It is deeply shocking that three years after this deplorable and devastating act of violence, the majority of the girls remain missing," a half-dozen independent experts for the United Nations, who visited Nigeria last year, said in a statement this week. The failure of Nigeria's former government to free the girls sparked a global Bring Back Our Girls movement and was a factor Buhari's 2015 election win over former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Bring back our girls campaigners hold Torchlights during a vigil to mark three years anniversary of the abduction of girls studying at the Chibok government secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria Friday, April. 14, 2017. Nigerians on Friday marked three years since the mass abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists amid anger that government efforts to negotiate their freedom appear to have stalled.​

The schoolgirls from Chibok village are among thousands of people abducted by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram as it continues to threaten parts of the northeast and has spread into neighboring countries. "I thank the Almighty for sparing the lives of some, and mine is among them," said Esther Yakubu, who wept last year when she watched a Boko Haram video with the first proof of life of her daughter, Dorcas, since her capture. Her daughter has not yet been freed. When marking the anniversary last year none of the schoolgirls had been freed, "but today we have 24 of them. That's progress," Yakubu said.

The Chibok abduction is not even the largest. Nigerian officials refuse to acknowledge the abduction of more than 500 children from the northeastern town of Damasak in November 2014, Human Rights Watch said last month. Nigerian officials have not responded to requests by The Associated Press for information. Buhari late last year announced that Boko Haram had been "crushed," but it continues to carry out deadly suicide bombings, often strapping them to young women. Children have been used to carry out 27 attacks in the first three months of this year, already nearing last year's total of 30, the U.N. children's agency said this week. "Today, the group has been degraded and is no longer in a position to mount any serious, coordinated attack, other than sporadic suicide attacks on soft targets," the president said Friday. "Even at that, their reach is very much confined to a small segment of the northeast."

But on Wednesday, Nigerian security officials said they had thwarted plans by Islamic State group-linked Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain, along with "other Western interests" in the capital. One faction of Boko Haram is allied with the Islamic State group. Nigeria's military in the past year has rescued thousands of Boko Haram captives while liberating towns and villages from the group's control, but many have been detained as possible Boko Haram suspects. Boko Haram's seven-year Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people and driven 2.6 million from their homes, with millions facing starvation because of the disruption in markets and agriculture.

News from The Associated Press

 

[Wyatt earp]

3 years go by fast



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[IsaacNewton]

Of course those Tea Party Christians are far more of a menace according to willfully ignorant liberal bed wetters.

Hi Debbie Downer, you made it.