The gang that kidnapped a gaggle of younger girls in Nigeria‘s northeast state of Borno per week in the past launched the remaining 12 late Saturday, an area official advised AFP.
Their launch comes because the nation has skilled a surge in abductions of younger folks over the previous two weeks.
“All the 12 were released,” Abubakar Mazhinyi, president of the native Askira-Uba council, advised AFP, including that they’d been taken to hospital.
“They (jihadists) spoke to the parents,” he mentioned. “It was the parents that went to the bush.”
Final Saturday, 13 Muslim girls and women, aged between 16 and 23 have been kidnapped close to their farms in land close to a nature reserve that has change into a hideout for the jihadists.
The gang freed certainly one of them after she advised them she was nursing a child.
No ransom was paid, with the jihadists releasing the ladies as a result of the military was in pursuit, mentioned Mazhinyi.
Borno state is on the coronary heart of Nigeria’s battle with the jihadists, which began 16 years in the past with Boko Haram.
It was the scene of the 2014 kidnapping of practically 300 women in Chibok.
Whereas the jihadist risk has diminished, each Boko Haram and rival breakaway Islamic State West Africa Province are nonetheless harmful.
The battle there has claimed the lives of greater than 40,000 folks and compelled greater than two million folks to flee their houses, in accordance with UN figures.
The violence is just not confined to the northeast of the nation.
Final week, armed gangs seized greater than 300 kids from a Catholic faculty within the central-western Niger delta state.
Though some managed to flee, greater than 265 kids and lecturers are nonetheless being held.
Belongings are seen outdoors a scholar dormitory at St. Mary’s Catholic Faculty in Papiri, Agwarra native authorities, Niger state, on Nov. 23, 2025. Fifty of the greater than 300 kids snatched by gunmen from a Catholic faculty in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group mentioned in a press release on November 23.
Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye / AFP through Getty Pictures
These abductions have been claimed by bandits fairly than jihadists.
Nigeria has a historical past of mass kidnappings, principally carried out by prison gangs searching for ransom funds and focusing on weak populations in poorly policed rural areas.
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