They will be given proper medical attention and care before being reunited with their families. This is a huge relief to the entire country & international community, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Twitter.
It remained unclear, however, if all the abducted schoolboys had been released, amid ongoing uncertainty over the number taken in the first place.
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In a video released by Boko Haram Thursday, a distraught teenager said he was among 520 students kidnapped. No one can give the exact number of the children, a security source told AFP Thursday, saying the schoolboys were left in the forest after negotiations with the government.
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Smith holds hearing with State Dept., humanitarian groups on killings in Nigeria, alleged acts by Islamist radicals December 17, 2020, 11:59 pm | in
PHOTO: Rep. Smith chairs the hearing on the Nigerian conflict on Dec. 17, 2020.
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State Dept., humanitarian groups testify on killings, conflict in Nigeria, alleged acts by Islamist radicals
WASHINGTON, DC – The brutal atrocities and continuing threats to Nigerian peace and stability especially to Christians under seemingly relentless attacks by radical Islamists in Nigeria were at the core of testimony by U.S. State Department officials and human rights organizations at a hearing today, “Conflict and Killings in Nigeria’s Middle Belt,” held by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
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More than 300 schoolboys released after kidnapping
WARNING SIGNS: Parents of the missing students said they had long feared an attack, with one saying that children had earlier seen armed men near the school
AFP, KANKARA, Nigeria
More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were on Thursday released after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors.
The assault on last Friday on a rural school in Kankara, Katsina State in northwest Nigeria, was initially blamed on criminal gangs who have terrorized the region for years.
On Tuesday Boko Haram, the brutal jihadist group behind the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, claimed responsibility for the raid.