Nigerian army has confirmed that a Chibok schoolgirl has been found.
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Six of the 219 girls have died during the long period of captivity, activists quoted Amina as saying, but the rest are still being held at a “heavily guarded” Boko Haram outpost in the forest.
A local vigilante group who fights against the Boko Haram found Nkeki near the Cameroon border in the Sambisa forest.
Community leaders said she was found on Tuesday and brought to meet her mother in the town of Mbalala, near Chibok, before being taken to a military base in Damboa.
Borno state governor Kashim Shettima told reporters Ali was on her way to the state capital, Maiduguri.
Nigeria’s government said it was studying a “proof of life” video showing 15 of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, as parents and their supporters marked the second anniversary of the kidnapping.
“She is likely to spend some days with the military for debriefing before rehabilitation and reintegration process is put in place for her”.
Operations to find the missing girls have intensified recently with a deep push into Sambisa Forest, a military spokesman told CNN’s Nima Elbagir.
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday, airlifted the rescued Chibok girl, Amina Ali, from Damboa to Maiduguri along with her baby and alleged “husband”, Mohammed Hayatu.
However, an assertion from activist group #Bringbackourgirls that the remining abductees were under heavy Boko Haram guard in the Sambisa forest, the jihadists’ final stronghold, will put pressure on him to send in rescue squads. Her school’s vice principal identified her as one of the abducted schoolgirls.
Boko Haram has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly in northeastern Nigeria, since it launched its campaign of violence in 2009.
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On Wednesday, the army said it had, helped by a vigilante group, found the girl in the northeast where the jihadists have been waging a seven-year insurgency. Only about 50 of the abductees – mostly aged between 16 and 18 – managed to escape immediately. An ally of the Islamic State, it has largely been beaten back by Nigerian and global forces, who retook most of Boko Haram’s captured territory.
