ICC Note: The Nigerian government continues to negotiate the release of the remaining Chibok girls that were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. The radicals have carried out several attacks in the past against Chibok town due to their Christian population and they continue to target it as well as other nearby towns because of their religion.

04/14/2017, Nigeria (Washington Post) – Nigeria’s government says negotiations with Boko Haram continue for the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped three years ago by the extremist group, shocking the world.

The government “has gone quite far with negotiations,” Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Wednesday night.

He spoke shortly before Friday’s three-year anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls from a village in the country’s northeast. At least 195 of them remain captive.

Nigeria in October announced the release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls, saying for the first time that it had been negotiating with the extremist group, mediated by the Swiss government and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The government denied a ransom was paid and that it had freed some detained Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the girls.

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