Missing Chibok schoolgirl found – the first since abductions two years ago
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A Boko Haram video showing some of the abducted Chibok girls
One of the Nigerian girls kidnapped from her school in Chibok by Boko Haram more than two years has been found by a vigilante group, according to reports.
Amina Ali Nkeki was rescued in the Sambisa Forest near the border with Cameroon, Lawan Zannah 鶹APP secretary of the missing Chibok girls鶹APP parents group 鶹APP told the Reuters news agency.
She is the first of the 219 missing students to be found after being taken from the school by gunmen in April 2014.
The news was also confirmed by a leader of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Tsambido Hosea Abana 鶹APP a Chibok community leader in Abuja 鶹APP tweeted that Amina was found yesterday.
The #BringBackOurGirls group also released a statement which said: 鶹APPShe says all of the others are still in the Sambisa Forest area. That they are heavily guarded,.鶹APP
One of the abducted Chibokgirls, Amina Ali Darsha Nkeki from Mbalala have been found in Kulakaisa area at the fringes of Sambisa Forest
鶹APP Tsambido Hosea Abana (@tsambido)
The Nigerian army said soldiers working with a civilian vigilante group rescued the girl and her four-month old baby near Damboa.
Army spokesman Sani Usman said they also detained a 鶹APPsuspected Boko Haram terrorist鶹APP who claimed to be her husband.
Yakubu Nkeki, head of the Abducted Chibok Girls Parents鶹APP group, said Amina told him she was 17 when she was taken. He added: 鶹APPShe鶹APPs the daughter of my neighbour鶹APP they brought her to my house.鶹APP
Ayuba Alamson Chibok, a community leader in the town, told the Agence France-Presse news agency: 鶹APPShe met her parents, who recognised their daughter before she was taken to the military base in Damboa.
鶹APPHer father鶹APPs name is Ali and the girl鶹APPs name is Amina. I know the family very well because I have worked with them, being a spokesman for the families of the Chibok girls.鶹APP
The community leaders said Amina appeared to have given birth while in captivity.
A #BringBackOurGirls protest in Aubja, Nigeria
Borno state鶹APPs governor said the girl was being taken to the state capital Maiduguri. Kashim Shettima said: 鶹APPI haven鶹APPt got any details鶹APP I learned the girl is on her way now.鶹APP
The Sambisa Forest is a Boko Haram stronghold which has been raided repeatedly by the Nigerian army during their searches for terrorist camps and the Chibok girls..
A total of 276 girls were abducted from the Government Girls鶹APP Secondary School in Chibok in a night raid on their domitories 鶹APP but many escaped from the kidnappers鶹APP trucks. Boko Haram released a video of a large group of the girls in May 2014.
The abduction sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Boko Haram鶹APPs insurgency has seen more than 900 schools attacked and 600 teachers killed, forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of education.
Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, has campaigned for the girls鶹APP release and for safe schools in Nigeria.
He said: 鶹APPWe still await official confirmation about the safety of one of the girls abducted from her school in Chibok 鶹APP but no one must give up hope and we should now urgently step up global support for a Nigerian rescue of all missing girls.鶹APP