ICC Note: A new video shows a number of the Chibok girls pleading for the Nigerian government to cooperate in negotiations with Boko Haram for their release. According to reports, the video appears authentic and to have been shot on Christmas day 2015. The  new revelation raises hope that the girls might be found alive. The militant Islamist terror group Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, 2014. Now two years since the event, 14 parents have died due to emotional stress and 57 girls have escaped leaving 219 still missing.

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4/15/16 ABUJA, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A group of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram exactly two years ago have been identified in a new video, raising hopes that they are all alive and renewing global calls for efforts to find them.

A video obtained by U.S. network CNN was shown to three mothers of girls abducted two years ago from Chibok in northeast Nigeria in the first possible sighting of the girls since a video of them in captivity was released in May 2014.

Boko Haram militants abducted 276 schoolgirls from Chibok on April 14, 2014, of which 57 escaped but 219 are still missing despite a global campaign #bringbackourgirls involving celebrities and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama.

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