Lydia was “rescued with her three children” near the town of Ngoshe in Borno state, the army said in a statement on Thursday. According to the army, the girl is five months pregnant.
More than 1,680 students were kidnapped from Nigerian schools between 2014 and 2022, according to the NGO Save the Children. The jihadist insurgency in northern Nigeria has left more than 40,000 dead and two million displaced since 2009. The mass kidnapping in Chibok sparked an international outcry in 2014, and sparked a campaign called “Bring back our girls. ” Nearly 100 of them are still missing, and the army has rescued a number of high school girls, many of whom were forced to marry their jihadist captors. The members of Boko Haram are today weakened by the operations of the army and internal struggles with its rival faction the Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap), however, continue to carry out attacks in north Nigeria. They mainly attack remote areas and target convoys leaving towns protected by the army.