{"id":321188,"date":"2017-05-21T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=321188"},"modified":"2017-05-21T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:02:30","slug":"chibok-girls-82-reunited-with-families-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/chibok-girls-82-reunited-with-families-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Chibok girls: 82 reunited with families in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families.<\/p>\n
The 82 girls, who were part of a huge group kidnapped from their school in 2014, are in the care of security services in the capital, Abuja.<\/p>\n
Their parents travelled by bus through the night to meet their daughters.<\/p>\n
More than 100 of the 276 girls, taken from the town of Chibok, are still being held by the militant group. Their whereabouts are unknown.
\nThe reunion in Abuja had a celebratory atmosphere, with music and dance.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Alistair Leithead says the girls were already dancing when their parents got off the bus and raced towards them, in an emotional reunion.<\/p>\n
The 82 young women were only freed two weeks earlier in exchange for five Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n
The most recent group freed was supposed to have 83 girls – but one refused to leave, saying she was happy and had found a husband, a Nigerian government spokesman said.<\/p>\n
The freed girls remain in government care – under the eye of security services who are questioning them about their time spent as captives.<\/p>\n
After the girls were abducted from their school in April 2014, a massive global awareness campaign began, using the Twitter hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.<\/p>\n
The Chibok girls represent a fraction of the women captured by the militant group, estimates for which number in the thousands.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a huge group kidnapped from their school in 2014, are in the care of security services in the capital, Abuja. Their parents travelled by bus through the night to meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[5225,6866,751],"yoast_head":"\n