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3 years ago

Boko Haram kidnapping survivors share their story

Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, who survived being kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014, are now graduating from a U.S. college.
3 years ago
VIDEO: Boko Haram kidnapping survivors share their story
4 years ago

More Chibok girls have escaped from Boko Haram almost 7 years later, parents say

Nearly seven years after Boko Haram snatched them from their beds in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, more of the missing schoolgirls are said to be returning home.
4 years ago
Posters supporting the #BringBackOurGirls movement are seen at the Falomo Roundabout in the Ikoyi neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 5, 2019. The movement marked 2,000 days since Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls from the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014.
4 years ago

344 Nigerian schoolboys freed days after being abducted, official says

Hundreds of schoolboys who were abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria last week have been freed, officials said.
4 years ago
Released students sit together at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, Katsina State, Nigeria, Dec. 18, 2020.
5 years ago

At least 65 killed in Boko Haram attack on funeral

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said.
5 years ago
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said.
5 years ago

Suspected Boko Haram attack on funeral leaves at least 65 dead in Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 65 people who had gathered for a funeral in northeastern Nigeria over the weekend, a local official said.
5 years ago
Smoldering ashes and charred items are seen on the ground in Budu near Maiduguri on July 28, 2019, after the latest attack by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead.
6 years ago

Boko Haram has abducted over 1,000 children, killed more than 2,000 teachers

Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013, according to the United Nations' children's agency.
6 years ago
Released Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, in the northeastern state of Yobe, wait to meet the Nigerian president at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on March 23, 2018.
7 years ago

Nigerian schoolgirl who 'refused to denounce Christ' remains captive after dozens freed, father says

Suspected Boko Haram militants allegedly stormed the town of Dapchi in northeast Nigeria on the night of Feb. 19 and kidnapped 110 students.
7 years ago
Some of the Dapchi schoolgirls are seen after being released by the Boko Harama in Jumbam village, Yobe State, Nigeria  on March 21, 2018.
7 years ago

Pressure builds on Nigerian government after admitting schoolgirls 'rescued' from Boko Haram are still missing

The Nigerian government backtracked after initially claiming the girls had been rescued.
7 years ago
In this image taken from video, Lai Muhammed, Nigerian Minister of Information, speaks to the media in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria, Feb. 22, 2018. Parents in northern Nigeria say more than 100 girls are still missing three days after suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked their school. The announcement comes after government officials in Yobe state acknowledged that some 50 young women remained unaccounted for in the Monday evening attack.
7 years ago

VIDEO: Chibok Girls: A timeline of terror
7 years ago

VIDEO: Video shows 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram after 3 years in captivity meet with Nigeria's president.
7 years ago

VIDEO: #BringBackOurGirls group said the freeing of 82 girls is "heartwarming."
7 years ago

Boko Haram behind thousands of child deaths: Report

The U.N. report said Boko Haram regularly uses children suicide bombers.
7 years ago
A young girl carries fire wood on the outskirt of the town of Damasak in North East Nigeria, April, 25 2017, as thousands of Nigerians, who were freed in 2016 by the Nigerian army from Boko Haram insurgents, are returning to their homes in Damasak. Yagana Bukar's younger brothers Mohammed and Sadiq were among about 300 children kidnapped by Boko Haram from the town of Damasak in remote northeastern Nigeria nearly three years ago.
7 years ago

Nigeria marks 3 years since 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram

It’s been three years since Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Chibok.
7 years ago
This video grab image created on Aug. 14, 2016, taken from a video released on youtube purportedly by Islamist group Boko Haram showing what is claimed to be one of the groups fighters at an undisclosed location standing in front of girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014.
8 years ago

Boko Haram Releases 21 Chibok Schoolgirls in Nigeria 2 Years Later

The Red Cross and Swiss officials took part in the negotiations.
8 years ago
People shout slogans and hold a banner during a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on Sept. 11, 2014 in Abuja, Nigeria.
8 years ago

Esther Yakubu's daughter is one of more than 200 Chibok girls kidnapped in 2014.
8 years ago

Abducted Chibok Girl's Mother Pleads With Nigerian Government in New Video

Esther Yakubu’s daughter was one of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Nigerian terror group Boko Haram in the northern town of Chibok on April 14, 2014.
8 years ago
Esther Yakubu's daughter is one of more than 200 Chibok girls kidnapped in 2014.