Over 200 Nigerian women rescued from Boko Haram are pregnant!!

On the night of 14–15 April 2014, female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility for the kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram , an Islamic jihadist and terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria.

The kidnapping sparked protests worldwide and inspired online campaigns supported by prominent politicians who denounced the militants’ actions.

It is not yet clear whether the Chibok girls are among the rescued women and children,around 214 girls rescued by the Nigerian army from terror group Boko Haram (now Iswap) were “visibly pregnant”, spreading fears they had been raped by the militants.

The news came after reports emerged that women and girls kidnapped by the insurgents were routinely raped and forced to marry their abductors. As a result of the sexual violence, some of them were pregnant.

The pregnant females – estimated by the DUN Population Fund (UNFPA) to be 214 – were part of 234 women and children rescued in the Sambisa forest following an offensive by Nigerian  soldiers aided by troops from neighboring countries. A similar operation resulted in the rescue of some 300 people a few days earlier.

“Already, many of them are undergoing screening for various diseases, infections including HIV/AIDS and about 214 of those already screened were discovered to be at various stages of pregnancies, some visibly pregnant and some just tested pregnant; but we are supporting all of them with various levels of care to stabilize them,” said UNFPA Nigeria executive director Babatunde Oshotimehin speaking in Lagos.

“Some of the children that were freed along with the women, it was discovered, were born in the forest and had never been out in the open until their release by the Nigerian Army,” Osotimehin said.

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The Nigerian army – currently aided by troops from Chad, Benin, Niger and Cameroon –started a ground and aerial offensive against the insurgents, who recently pledged allegiance to Islamic state (ISIS)

The offensive was launched shortly before Nigerian headed to the polls for general election that saw the victory of former army leader Muhammadu buhari who vowed to halt the deadly insurgence in the country.It looks like the days for Boko Haram are coming to an end.

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