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estates.com.ngVideo claims to show Nigerian girls kidnapped by militants two years ago A video purporting to show some of the more than 200 girls kidnapped by Nigerian-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram has surfaced on the abduction’s second anniversary. In the video, thought to have already been made in December and got by CNN, 15 girls are expressionless as they say their names to your man heard off camera. "We are all nicely," said among the girls in the video, first air Wednesday. She subsequently encouraged the Nigerian government to fulfill Boko Haram’s demands, which were not stated. CNN reported the video was made as "part of dialogues between the authorities and Boko Haram." Although Nigerian officials have alluded vaguely to possible talks, there have been few clear details even as the militants continue to wage attacks. The kidnapping of the 276 schoolgirls got world-wide interest, and Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, vowed to bring them home. Several girls managed to escape, but 219 are still lost. The last time the girls were seen freely was in a May 2014 video. In Nigeria, rumors have swirled over their possible destiny. Some girls held by Boko Haram in other regions have described a widespread campaign of sexual abuse and forced marriages. The recently released video reveals the lost girls with fluid head scarves that conceal everything but their faces. Despite the sketchy information provided in the video, Nigeria’s Lai Mohammed, advice minister, told CNN that the girls in the video appeared "under no stress whatsoever." CNN also spoke to moms and a classmate of the kidnapped girls, who said they recognized the young women. "I felt like removing her from the screen, " said Rifkatu Ayuba, whose daughter was among the 15 girls revealed. Although Boko Haram in recent years has kidnapped thousands of people, the girls, taken from the northeastern town of Chibok, became an international symbol of the clash. The Usa has dispatched surveillance drones and military trainers, and activists around the world unified on social media behind the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. "Two years on, the Chibok girls have come to symbolize all the civilians whose lives are devastated by Boko Haram," said Amnesty International’s Nigeria manager, M.K. Ibrahim. The United Nations is helping support some of the individuals who escaped in the Islamist group, many of whom live in abandoned buildings and straggly displacement camps. The girls are believed to be in the distant Sambisa woods in northeastern Nigeria. Although militants have been dislodged by the state’s military from cities and towns, a search and rescue operation in the woods is thought to be far more difficult. The video’s transmission coincided with a report by the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF accusing Boko Haram of sharply increasing the use of child suicide bombers — with girls accounting for more than three quarters of them — in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. Some of the girls are thought to happen to be kidnapped by the extremists. Boko Haram is pushing more youngsters to carry out suicide bombings In the past two years, Boko Haram militants have increasingly turned to a new tactic in their own strikes in West Africa: child suicide bombers. The amount of children involved in such blasts grew more than tenfold, from four in 2014 to 44 in 2015, according to a report released by the U.N. children’s bureau on Tuesday. And more than three quarters of the kids are girls — some as young as 8 years old. The accounts by UNICEF add another chilling view into the atrocities attributed on the Boko Haram group, which has conducted mass kidnappings of children, including more than 200 school girls abducted from a boarding school in northern Nigeria two years ago. Some girls and women who escaped have asserted that captives confront sexual abuse and forced marriages. "let's be clear: These kids are victims, not perpetrators, " said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s regional manager for Central and West Africa, in a statement. " Deceiving kids and forcing them to carry out acts that are lethal has been among the most horrific aspects of the violence and in neighboring countries." The Islamist group has been compelled by offensives by security forces in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad from most of the territory it once controlled. In response, Boko Haram has ran a growing quantity of assaults on civilian targets, killing hundreds of people in recent months. The report also reflects Boko Haram’s drive in recent years outside its former strongholds. Almost half the child suicide attacks, 21, were in neighboring Cameroon, it said. But international aid groups and both Nigerian officials have struggled to explain the basis for the surge in child attackers. But according to UNICEF, many of the attacks are conducted involuntarily. "Lads are forced to attack their own families to present their devotion to Boko Haram, " the report said. The group has, meanwhile, taken a huge selection of girls. "The calculated use of kids, who may have been coerced into taking bombs, has created an atmosphere of concern and mistrust that has disastrous effects for girls who have survived captivity and sexual violence by Boko Haram in North East Nigeria, UNICEF’s report was said by ". The rise in Boko Haram’s instance is stunning although youthful suicide bombers are used in other conflict zones. 20 percent of suicide bombings carried out by the group have been kids, according to UNICEF. Some of the children were abducted by Boko Haram from their dwellings, and their bodies were identified months later from remains after suicide attacks. A young girl blew herself up in a mosque in the northern Ni ger ian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 22 people, last month. Her identity hasn't yet been established. The Nigerian military, because of its part, has come to treat kids abducted by Boko Haram as risks no distinct from adults. Lads have appeared on "wanted posters" across northeastern Nigeria — once the stronghold for the group — along with heaps of top Boko Haram suspects. "Banditry knows no age," said Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor, the top military official in the northeast, when a Washington Post reporter asked about the boys on the poster. In another report from Human Rights Watch Tuesday released, researchers said that "Nigeria’s security forces have led to the issue through the use of schools as military bases, putting children at additional risk of attack in the Islamist armed group." Human Rights Watch also reported that "at least 611 teachers have been blatantly killed." Almost 1.3 million schoolchildren have been displaced by the conflict, according to UNICEF, including 5,000 kids separated from their parents. And violence is just not the only threat facing children in the region. By January, 195,000 children were suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Army says no more Boko Haram camps The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said there were no camps of Boko Haram terrorists in the northeastern part of the nation anymore. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Usman, who disclosed this yesterday while addressing newsmen at the inauguration of Strategic Communication Lessons for senior officers at the Nigerian Army School of Public Relations and Information, Bonny Camp, Lagos, said the military was winning the war against terrorism. He said: "The circumstances in the North-East has tremendously improved. The military operations or the fight against terrorism and insurgency in the North-East is hinged on three things. "First, conquering the Boko Haram terrorists which have been executed and making room to ease humanitarian assistance that is also continuing. "Then restoration of order and law for good government to take place. "We no more have camps of Boko Haram terrorists and we no more have them in the lands."  On the inauguration of the communicating lessons, Usman said that training of employees was overriding, including that it would improve ability.  He thanked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, for improving the Nigerian Army configurations.  Also, the NASPRI Commandant, Col. John Agim, said the course was to better equip senior officers who were saddled with the duty of shaping the information environment.  I encourage one to take advantage of this training to improve your capability in public relations "As you settle down to confront the rigours of this course. "Also, enrich your ability and by expansion in the field of arms", Agim said. Northern group needs amnesty for Boko Haram A group, the Northern Inter faith and Spiritual Organisation for Peace (NIROP), has reiterated call for an amnesty programme for repentant members of the Boko Haram sect. The group also commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the absorption of members of the local vigilance outfit, also referred to as Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), into security agencies. National Coordinator of NIROP, Bishop Musa Fomson, who spoke with reporters in Abuja, yesterday, said: "We need to suggest that the authorities strongly consider granting amnesty to members of Boko Haram which aren't high up in its command structure, as an incentive to make them drop their weapons without further human cost. "What's on trial here is our humanity. As the war on terror reaches the advanced stage of clearing out remnants of the sect, deaths are still being recorded on all sides. An incentive to halt the remaining terrorists from putting up stiff fight is really to support surrender. This should particularly target the noncombatant elements of those and the terror group that were coerced into joining the sect." NIROP, however, warned that the amnesty should focus on demobilising Boko Haram members "and must not be converted into a money. It must also be monitored in a sense it is not impossible to keep track of those that sign up for the deal." Bishop Fomson said: " absorption and Their training into the Nigerian Army and other agencies is a confirmation the fight against terrorism has reached the stage where homegrown alternatives need certainly to be engineered. The concern has been how to disarm and demobilise the youths, after they've been compelled to bear arms. Those raising the concern were afraid of what would occur when Boko Haram has been completely conquered by the military. The youths could become a way to obtain difficulty although they have the abilities to fight but are not gainfully used." Boko Haram Ambush: Military yet to support variety of soldiers  Not less than 10 soldiers are said to be missing in action, when troops of the Nigeria Army walked into an ambush laid by Boko Haram insurgents on Thursday morning. The authorities of the Nigeria Army are yet to validate the number.  But a statement issued by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations (Ag.DAPR) Col Sani Usman, affirmed that soldiers returning from an effective operation seen the insurgents, inflicted casualties on them, but "a few others were missing in action."  A source told The Guardian the missing soldiers were before the ambush, in the thick of action but you CAn't begin to look out for everybody when you are exchanging fire.  "The terrorists attacked within their numbers, the troops were taken unawares, so it was a difficult position, but the real figure would be made public soon," the source said. The statement read in part: "Troops on clearance patrol at Guro Gongon village and environs to rout out remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hibernating destroyed the terrorists’ makeshift camps and regained fairly a number of foodstuff, gear and weapons in the act. "However, the gallant soldiers basking on the recorded accomplishment, returning to their locations that are defensive, ran into an ambush by a group of Boko Haram terrorists who came to bolster their fleeing comrades. Nigeria Boko Haram catastrophe: UN aid convoy ambushed Suspected Islamist Boko Haram militants have ambushed an UN humanitarian aid convoy in northeastern Nigeria which had a military escort, officials say. The military said three civilians, including UN staff, and two soldiers were wounded in the strike. It has prompted aid deliveries to be briefly suspended by the UN in Borno state, where more than two million people have been displaced by the insurgency. The UN says thousands of children are severely malnourished in the area. Before this month the UN's children agency warned that tens of thousands of children would die if treatment did not reach them shortly. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has lost most of the territory it controlled 18 months ago, is fighting to overthrow the government. Its seven-year insurgency has left 20,000 people dead, mainly in the country's north east. The wounded are in a stable condition and are being treated in hospital in the state capital Maiduguri, based on a statement from the military. "The convoy was travelling from Bama to Maiduguri in Borno State... returning from delivering desperately needed aid" at the time of the ambush, Unicef said. "This was not only an attack on humanitarian workers. It's an attack on the people who most need the assistance and aid that these workers were bringing," it included. Boko Haram never really went away, contrary to the Nigerian government saying the group was conquered "technically" or even "decisively". Nigeria and its neighbours has undoubtedly weakened in the joint military offensive the group, losing swathes of land in Nigeria's north east. But attacks against security forces and civilians have seen a resurgence in recent months. The strikes have even been encouraged by media outlets of the so-called Islamic State, to which the leaders of Boko Haram have vowed allegiance. It doesn't help that Nigeria and another battle are now fighting with against oil militants in the southern Niger Delta area. UN suspends aid to dangerous areas of northeast Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations is suspending assistance to dangerous regions of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, where it says after a humanitarian convoy was ambushed by Boko Haram, a half million people are starving. Three civilians including an UNICEF worker and contractor for the International Organization for Migration were wounded in Thursday’s ambush, along with two of the soldiers escorting the humanitarian workers, based on the Nigerian army and the U.N. Kids’s Fund. "Only the U.N. missions outside the capital have been frozen," UNICEF spokeswoman Doune Porter told The Associated Press on Friday. "The standard assistance we have been giving will continue in Maiduguri," the Borno state capital of 1 million individuals that hosts another million refugees from Nigeria’s 7-year-old Islamic insurgency. This wasn't only an assault on humanitarian workers. It is an assault on the people who most need support and the help that these workers were bringing," Porter said. The assaulted convoy was traveling from the city of Bama, just freed from Boko Haram, where Doctors Without Borders has warned that kids are dying every day with 15 percent enduring severe acute malnutrition and likely to die without medical and food aid.  More than 500,000 people are enduring a "catastrophic humanitarian crisis" in dangerous-to-reach areas, said the physicians.  A Doctors Without Borders vehicle traveling with a military escort set off a land mine before this week several kilometers (miles) in the scene of Thursday’s ambush but no one was hurt, according to soldiers who were there. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters.  Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman said the insurgents were hiding in Meleri hamlet near Kawuri, the official gateway to the sprawling Sambisa Forest that's been a Boko Haram stronghold. The military warned earlier this month that Boko Haram fighters were fleeing its day-to-day aerial bombardments and ground attacks in the forest, heading toward the border with Cameroon. Some Boko Haram fighters who surrendered have reported the militants are running out of fuel, food and arms, the military has said, saying they have cut off the insurgents’ supply lines. The rebellion by Boko Haram, which joined the Islamic State group this past year, has killed more than 20,000 individuals, compelled more than 2 million from their homes and spread across Nigeria’s borders to Cameroon, Chad and Niger. U.N.: Almost 50,000 children at risk of starvation due to Boko Haram effort Nearly a quarter of a million children are severely malnourished in just one state in northeastern Nigeria, where a lot more than a million individuals have been displaced by a violent campaign by Islamist extremists and kept aid groups away, a leading international group reported. Based on the UNICEF report, about 50,000 of the children will die if they don’t receive medical attention shortly. is received by food The report focused on Borno state, which has suffered the worst of mass kidnappings and Boko Haram’s attacks. Yet while those offenses are known — particularly the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from town of Chibok — less attention has been received by the astounding humanitarian impact of the group’s campaign. Northeastern Nigeria is now the site of one of the world’s largest displacement disasters, with more than 1.4 million people having been forced to flee their homes. But because the region is not accessible and dangerous, it receives relatively little international assistance. Nigeria’s own aid equipment has a limited record of effectiveness, plus some experts say mismanagement that is serious plagues it. There are 2 million people we're still not able to reach in Borno state, which means the true scope of the catastrophe has yet to be shown to the world," said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s director for West and Central Africa. "There are organizations on the earth but none of us are competent to work at the scale and quality that we need. We must scale up." In addition to the displaced, many of those facing serious food shortages relied on farms that raided or have been ruined by Boko Haram combatants. The collapse of government services has exacerbated the malnutrition crisis in places where the insurgents have been active.  Thirty percent of health facilities and 70 percent of the water infrastructure in Borno continues to be ruined or damaged, based on the United Nations.  Beginning in 2011, Boko Haram took over enormous numbers of territory in Nigeria and went into neighboring Cameroon and Chad. The Nigerian military has dislodged the fighters from most of the strongholds. But the insurgents have kept their capacity to consistently strike at soft targets, for example mosques or displacement camps. That's made it hard for many help groups to run.  Though a number of these places are now not under Boko Haram control, they are still not safe said Doune Porter, a spokeswoman for UNICEF in Nigeria. At one displacement camp in the town of Bama, the aid group Doctors Without Borders reported last month that individuals were dying of starvation daily. UNICEF has appealed for $55.5 million to react to the disaster in northeastern Nigeria but has received just $23 million. "All the humanitarian actors are under-resourced and finance, and it’s an extremely difficult problem," Porter said. MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — In the centre of the forest, they were kept in miniature thatched huts for months, waiting for their rapists to return each evening with anxiety. During the violence that is almost intolerable, the young women’s thoughts drifted to escape or death. The victims were as young as 8. senate.gov.ngAt the heart of Boko Haram’s self-proclaimed caliphate in northeastern Nigeria was a savage campaign of rape and sexual slavery that's just recently been uncovered. Thousands of girls and women were held against their will, subject to constant indoctrination and forced marriages. Those that resisted were frequently shot. Many of the girls are unexpectedly free — saved in the last year that dislodged the extremist Islamist group from most of the land it controlled in a series of Nigerian military operations. But there have been few joyous family reunions for the casualties. Most of the surviving women no longer have houses. Their cities were burned to the earth. The military has quietly deposited them in abandoned buildings or displacement camps, where they're tracked by armed men leery of their devotions. They're still labeled "Boko Haram wives Few could have envisioned this kind of outcome two years ago, when Boko Haram kidnaped 276 schoolgirls and the world responded with the Bring Back Our Girls effort. Many people presumed the other kidnapped girls would be warmly welcomed back, while most of those schoolgirls from Chibok are missing.  Instead, they are shunned.  For seven months, Hamsatu 25, and Halima, 15, were among Boko Haram’s sex slaves, raped almost daily by exactly the same unit of combatants in the distant Sambisa Forest. Now, they live in a narrow, white tent in a camp that is displacement, with empty cement bags sewn together to create a curtain. The girls spoke on the condition that their full names were not used in order to describe their encounters.  When Halima leaves the tent to get food the other individuals living in the camp scowl at her or cautiously move away.  "You ’re the person who was married to Boko Haram," one mature woman spat at her lately. "We can’t trust any of them," said one guard. Authorities say there are good reasons due to their wariness. Last year, 39 of 89 Boko Haram suicide bombings were completed by girls, in accordance with UNICEF. Twenty-one of those female attackers were under the age of 18, many of them ladies apparently abducted from villages and cities and converted into assassins. Since January, female attackers have killed hundreds of people across northeastern Nigeria, in markets, mosques and also displacement camps. No one understands just why some women who mistreated and were captured became killers. Maybe it was the indoctrination. Maybe it was the ’ threats that are militants. The occupation of reintegrating the displaced, either way has become immensely more complicated for Nigerian authorities. yohaig.ngAnd for survivors attempting to move ahead from a terrible phase of these lives, there is now a brand new agony. "There is no trust here," said Hamsatu, wearing the same pink and crouching in her tent, flowery dress she had on when she was kidnapped 18 months ago. In her arms, she held the infant of her captor. It was September 2014 when Boko Haram fighters took over Halima’s dwelling city of Bama and Hamsatu’s, near the Cameroonian border. Many of the 350,000 residents managed to flee. But the fighters instantaneously began killing the man civilians who couldn’t escape. Some were shot inside their houses. Others were beheaded and thrown in mass graves. With a group of about 25 other women, Hamsatu and Halima say, they were transferred by the militants from home to home and after that driven to travel on foot and on the backs of motorcycles to the Sambisa Forest, where Boko Haram had set up camps for its sex slaves. The girls were each assigned to a sliver of a hut, barely big enough to lie down. Hamsatu said that days later, the name of one fighter, whose, entered the hut and said a prayer in what sounded like Arabic to her. Now they were wed, he told her. She thought of her actual husband, who'd been missing since the day Boko Haram stormed Bama. "I do n’t know if he’s living," she said.