Kidnapped Nigerian girls freed, return to Chibok with babies
The Nigerian military says it has rescued two young women who were kidnapped nine years ago by the jihadi militant group Boko Haram MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Two Nigerian women abducted as school girls by a jihadi militant group nine years ago have been rescued, the West African nation’s Military has said. One had a year-old baby while the second gave birth to her second child days after her freed om. Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus were among 276 schoolgirls abducted in April 2014 from the Government Girls Secondary School in the village of Chibok by Boko Haram militants. They were rescued in April by Nigerian soldiers and reunited with their families in the northeastern Borno state, according to Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Ali, who leads the Nigerian military operation against the extremist violence experienced in the northeast region for more than a decade. Boko Haram fighters stormed the school in Borno nine years ago as the girls were preparing for exams. The mass kidnap sparked global outrag...