Boko Haram raped, beat us – Abducted girls

He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him
and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would
kill me if I shouted.

“Then he began to rape me every night … I had never had sex
before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly because I was
bleeding afterwards.”

These were the words of a 15-year-old girl, who was abducted by
Boko Haram and forcibly married to one of its commanders in a
camp in the Sambisa Forest, Borno State.

The girl, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, was
abducted in 2013 but she escaped after four weeks in captivity.
The teenager is one of the five girls that personally recounted their
ordeals in the publication which was made public on Monday. She
said that after her marriage to the commander who was in his
early 30s, she was ordered to live with him in cave.

The experiences of three others who suffered sexual violence
were narrated by witnesses in the 63-page HRW report titled,
Those Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence against
Women and Girls in North-East Nigeria.’

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CHIBOK GIRLS: FG, Boko Haram, to meet in Chad again

The Federal Government and the Boko Haram Islamic sect will on
Monday meet in Chad to further discuss the release of the over
200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.

This came a week after a botched ceasefire agreement reached by
the Federal government and the sect.

The peace talk between the Nigerian government and Boko Haram
sect, which is being mediated by the Chadian government, had
been called into question since it was announced by the military
last week following the refusal of both parties to respect the
ceasefire deal.

Boko Haram has yet to comment on the ceasefire and its fighters
have continued to attack villages in the North-East.

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No date yet for Chibok girls’ release – Presidency

The Presidency has distanced itself from reports that it fixed a
date in conjunction with Boko Haram for the release of the
abducted Chibok girls.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr.
Doyin Okupe, stated that the reports were “mischievous rumours”
aimed at discrediting the government.

According to Okupe, the Federal Government chose neither October
20 nor any other date with the Islamist sect, in the widely
publicised ceasefire deal.

“Nobody said the (Chibok) girls would be released on Monday
(October 20). It was a mischievous rumour to set government up,”
Okupe wrote on Twitter while fending off criticisms of the Federal
Government on the botched ceasefire deal.

The presidential aide, however, expressed optimism that the
collapsed deal would sail through but maintained silence on the
fate of the Chibok girls.

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First Lady Obama remembers Chibok girls 6 months later

First Lady Michelle Obama remembers the abducted girls in Chibok town, north-eastern Nigeria.

I feel for them too.

Malala pleads to President Jonathan to intensify efforts to rescue Chibok girls

Malala Yousafzai has called on Nigeria to intensify efforts to free
219 schoolgirls who were abducted by Islamist militants six
months ago.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner said campaigners needed to raise
their voices “louder than ever” to demand the freedom of the girls.
The Boko Haram group sparked global outrage when it seized the
girls.

Foreign governments including the US and China, have sent experts
to Nigeria to help track them down.
Boko Haram fighters abducted the girls during a raid on their
boarding school in Chibok town in north-eastern Nigeria in April.

(Source: bbcnews.com)

Alicia Keys Campaigns For Release Of Abducted Chibok Girls

Alicia Keys

American singer, Alicia Keys who is gradually becoming a peace activist was featured on CNN where she spoke about the missing Chibok
girls. The Bring Back Our Girls group held a candle light procession in Abuja in honour of the abducted Chibok girls who have been away for 180 days.