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Nigerian Government Negotiates Release of 82 Chibok Girls From Boko Haram

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Nigerian Government Negotiates Release of 82 Chibok Girls From Boko Haram

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Lagos, Nigeria – Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls have been released after successful negotiations between the terrorist group Boko Haram and the Nigerian government, the Nigerian President’s office said.

A government official close to the negotiations told CNN the freed girls are in military custody in Banki, a town in northeast Nigeria. They will be transferred to the capital, Abuja, where they will have medical checks and be reunited with their families. They are believed to be among the 276 girls, ages 16 to 18, forced from their beds by Boko Haram militants in the middle of the night in April 2014.

The kidnapping from a boarding school in the town of Chibok sparked global outrage and the social media…

Please read original article Nigerian Government Negotiates Release of 82 Chibok Girls From Boko Haram posted on Healthy Black Girls on 8 May 2017 | 6:44 pm —

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