Nigeria military rescues one Chibok schoolgirl: army

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Nigerian military said on Saturday, November 5 they had rescued another of the missing Chibok schoolgirls near the border with Cameroon, AFP reports.

"Nigerian army troops rescued another Chibok schoolgirl at Pulka" on Friday evening, army spokesman Sani Usman said, adding that details of the rescue operation would be given later.

According to the Nigeria Daily Post news website, the girl was rescued with a baby.

It is the latest rescue since the release of 21 of the girls by Boko Haram last month as part of a prisoner exchange deal between the government and militant group brokered by the International Red Cross and Swiss government.

Boko Haram seized 276 students from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on the night of April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the immediate aftermath.

Until the prisoner release, only one other girl had been rescued after being discovered by civilian vigilantes in May. She, too, was rescued with a baby and appeared to have given birth while in captivity.

A video released by Boko Haram in August purporting to show the rest of the kidnapped Chibok girls is only the second proof of life video obtained since their abduction.

In that video, a militant demanded the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the girls. He also claimed that five of the Chibok girls were killed during Nigerian airstrikes on one of the group's compounds.

The Chibok girls' abduction sparked outrage worldwide launching the #BringBackOurGirls movement and bringing global attention to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has seen the repeated use kidnapping as a weapon in a war that has killed some 20,000 people since 2009.