Ten years after nearly 300 girls were abducted from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram, a third of them are still being held and mass kidnappings have become a lucrative industry for criminal gangs across the country.
The Chibok girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014. Raiding a government girls’ secondary school that night, terrorists forced teenage girls onto trucks and drove them away through bush paths to a 128,000-acre forest. Of the 276 abducted girls, those who have regained freedom include 57 who jumped off the trucks and 128 others freed after negotiations with Boko Haram or found in neighboring countries.
The most recent rescue happened last year with the return of 5 girls who were found with seven children they had given birth to during captivity. Overall, 21 of the freed girls returned with 34 children, according to a report by Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a gender and policy advocacy non-profit in Lagos. It said 91 girls are still being held by Boko Haram.
Families of the still-captive Chibok girls have made new appeals to the Nigerian government to rescue their children. A group of parents sent a letter to Nigeria’s first lady this week, MMF’s chief executive Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode told Semafor Africa.
Nigeria’s inability to reunite the 91 girls with their families a decade later represents “a failure of intelligence and governance, and we still don’t have a rapid response warning system when school children are abducted,” Muhammed-Oyebode said.
If only we gave a shit enough about boys and men to act when their modus operandi was simply killing them en masse and releasing all the young girls, but nope: we ignored them, so they decided to kidnap young girls instead.
Worked like a charm, too. Here we are.
Dull_Conversation669 on
What? How can this be? We did the social media thing to bring them home…..
PlanetGuy on
10 years in captivity by Islamist jihadist organization Boko Haram. Poor girls!
thefireman9 on
Unbelievable it’s been a decade already. Total lack of government action is appalling! These girls need justice
Sorry but the western world is more focused right now on shouting for a ceasefire that will only benefit Hamas and keep them in their oppresive power over the Palestinians.
Literally_Me_2011 on
WTF is their government doing then? Its been 10 years and they’re still in captivity.
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**From Alexander Onukwue and Hamza Ibrahim:**
Ten years after nearly 300 girls were abducted from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram, a third of them are still being held and mass kidnappings have become a lucrative industry for criminal gangs across the country.
The Chibok girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014. Raiding a government girls’ secondary school that night, terrorists forced teenage girls onto trucks and drove them away through bush paths to a 128,000-acre forest. Of the 276 abducted girls, those who have regained freedom include 57 who jumped off the trucks and 128 others freed after negotiations with Boko Haram or found in neighboring countries.
The most recent rescue happened last year with the return of 5 girls who were found with seven children they had given birth to during captivity. Overall, 21 of the freed girls returned with 34 children, according to a report by Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a gender and policy advocacy non-profit in Lagos. It said 91 girls are still being held by Boko Haram.
Families of the still-captive Chibok girls have made new appeals to the Nigerian government to rescue their children. A group of parents sent a letter to Nigeria’s first lady this week, MMF’s chief executive Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode told Semafor Africa.
Nigeria’s inability to reunite the 91 girls with their families a decade later represents “a failure of intelligence and governance, and we still don’t have a rapid response warning system when school children are abducted,” Muhammed-Oyebode said.
**Read the full story [here](https://www.semafor.com/article/04/11/2024/dozens-of-nigerias-chibok-girls-remain-in-captivity-10-years-after-abduction?utm_campaign=semaforreddit).**
If only we gave a shit enough about boys and men to act when their modus operandi was simply killing them en masse and releasing all the young girls, but nope: we ignored them, so they decided to kidnap young girls instead.
Worked like a charm, too. Here we are.
What? How can this be? We did the social media thing to bring them home…..
10 years in captivity by Islamist jihadist organization Boko Haram. Poor girls!
Unbelievable it’s been a decade already. Total lack of government action is appalling! These girls need justice
[We tried.](https://i.imgur.com/oxU60tL.jpeg)
Sorry but the western world is more focused right now on shouting for a ceasefire that will only benefit Hamas and keep them in their oppresive power over the Palestinians.
WTF is their government doing then? Its been 10 years and they’re still in captivity.