ICC Note
Nigerian officials announced they found another Chibok schoolgirl wandering near the Sambisa Forest after soldiers learned her identity from captured Boko Haram suspects. Rakiya Abubakar was kidnapped in 2014 along with almost 300 other girls. When soldiers found her, she was carrying a six-month-old baby as she was wandering around. Officials believe that they will eventually find the remaining school girls within close proximity to the Sambisa Forest.
1/6/17 Nigeria (CBS) – Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group 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.
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