More than 100 high school girls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram Islamist militants are finally preparing to return home to the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the Euro News website reports today (September 14, 2017).
The women have been staying at a government-owned facility in the capital of Abuja where they have been undergoing psychological and medical care.
Some 270 girls were abducted in 2014 by the Islamist group -- which used most of them as sex slaves -- but 82 were freed in May this year after mediation with the Nigerian government, adding to 24 who were released or escaped last year.
The Boko Haram militant group has killed more than 15,000 people and displaced at least two million others in a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.
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