ICC Note: The mother of Amina Ali, one of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, is concerned for her daughter’s future, despite the girl’s rescue a few months ago. After being kidnapped by Boko Haram along with over 200 other school girls, Amina was rescued in May after two years of captivity. Amina’s mother is worried that her daughter’s abduction has destroyed her pans for her future, including her education. She is also concerned that her daughter is being pressured to remain Muslim after being forcefully converted from Christianity to Islam by her abductors. Amina is one of the few Chibok girls that has been rescued since 2014; there are still over 200 girls missing, held by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram carried out the abduction of the Chibok girls, many of whom are Christian, as part of their seven-year long insurgency aimed at establishing an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.

08/02/2016, Chibok, Nigeria (AllAfrica) – “Before she was kidnapped, she wanted to further her education. But now she is afraid of schooling”

Held for months by the Nigerian government and confined to a house in the capital for the foreseeable future, Amina Ali, a schoolgirl who was rescued after two years in Boko Haram captivity, may never be the girl she once was, her mother fears.

Amina, one of more than 200 girls abducted from a school in Chibok in April 2014, and her four-month-old baby were rescued in May near Damboa in the remote northeast, by soldiers working together with a civilian vigilante group.

After a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, in the hope she would shed light on the fate of the other kidnapped girls, Amina has since been held in a house in the capital Abuja for what the Nigerian government has called a “restoration process”.

But her mother, Binta Ali, who has spent the last two months in the house, is concerned about Amina’s welfare and future.

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