Nigerian Government Negotiationing Further With Boko Haram To Release Chibok Girls

Nigeria has reignited negotiations with the extremist group Boko Haram to release the remaining 110 shoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014 along with about other 200 students.

The minister of women’s affairs and social development Aisha Alhassan said in a press release on Thursday, “We will not relent until all are back.”

The mass abduction brought world attention.

Last Saturday 82 of the abducted girls were released by the terror group in exchange of five detained Boko Haram commanders.

A source in anonymity said negotiations between Boko Haram and Nigerian government was mediated by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss government.

The negotiation also resulted with the release of 21 Chibok schoolgirls in October 2016.

Meanwhile, it is also reported insurgency of the group has forced many women in the Lake Chad basin to sell sex, reveals a report released by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Violence in the region has displaced more than 2.4 million people and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of others have been disrupted.

United Nations said about a million people have been cut off from humanitarian aid and children are seen malnourished.

The report adds some of the women have been forced to prostitute as their husbands are no longer alive because of the conflict.