Source: Open Doors, January 29, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Africa services team is reporting that Nigeria\u2019s army has reportedly rescued hundreds of people abducted by Boko Haram\u2014including at least one of the 112 still-missing Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 in an attack on a girls\u2019 finishing school in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok.
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor a month now, troops have been bombarding the Sambisa forest and Boko Haram hideouts, and many civilians are being rescued,\u201d a military source said. \u201cWhen the enemies are neutralized, those they have captured regain freedom.\u201d Among those freed is a Chibok girl, Hauwa Halima Maigana, rescued after her captors\u2019 hideout was cleared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to CNN<\/a>, Maigana called her father to say she and others had managed to flee Boko Haram militants Thursday. Her father told CNN, \u201cShe asked me, \u2018Is this my daddy? Is this my daddy?\u2019 and she started crying. The crying was [so] much and I couldn\u2019t hear her very well. I was crying too. I never expected to hear from her again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Let\u2019s pray for Maigana, her family, and Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00bb See also Kidnapped Christian Professor in Nigeria Released, Sources Say<\/a> and Christians Leaders Killed in Middle Belt of Nigeria<\/a> (Morning Star News).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Open Doors, January 29, 2021 Our Africa services team is reporting that Nigeria\u2019s army has reportedly rescued hundreds of people abducted by Boko Haram\u2014including at least one of the 112 still-missing Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 in an attack on a girls\u2019 finishing school in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok. A military … Continue reading NIGERIA: Hundreds Rescued from Boko Haram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9884,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}