Nigeria’s government is in talks to release the remaining captive Chibok girls, the president said on Thursday, a day before the third anniversary of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Islamist insurgency Boko Haram.
The government “is in constant touch through negotiations, through local intelligence to secure the release of the remaining girls and other abducted persons unharmed,” President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement.
Of the girls taken from their school in the northeastern town of Chibok in 2014, 195 are still missing.
More than 20 were released in October in a deal brokered by the International Red Cross. Others have escaped or been rescued.
Source – Reuters
