Source: Open Doors, January 29, 2021
Our Africa services team is reporting that Nigeria’s army has reportedly rescued hundreds of people abducted by Boko Haram—including at least one of the 112 still-missing Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 in an attack on a girls’ finishing school in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok.
A military source told Nigerian news publication The Cable that the rescue followed a series of military operations in the Sambisa Forest where hundreds of captives are being freed.
“For a month now, troops have been bombarding the Sambisa forest and Boko Haram hideouts, and many civilians are being rescued,” a military source said. “When the enemies are neutralized, those they have captured regain freedom.” Among those freed is a Chibok girl, Hauwa Halima Maigana, rescued after her captors’ hideout was cleared.
According to CNN, Maigana called her father to say she and others had managed to flee Boko Haram militants Thursday. Her father told CNN, “She asked me, ‘Is this my daddy? Is this my daddy?’ and she started crying. The crying was [so] much and I couldn’t hear her very well. I was crying too. I never expected to hear from her again.”
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