One
of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram
in Nigeria in 2014 was found Saturday by the Nigerian army, the army said.
She
was discovered carrying a 10-month-old son among a group that had escaped from
a Boko Haram hideout in Sambisa Forest.
"This
morning as part of the operation we've been conducting, we rescued one of the
Chibok girls. ... Our troops in Pulka rescued her along with a Boko Haram
member," Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor said at a press briefing Saturday.
The
girl, identified as Maryam Ali Maiyanga, is said to have been among the 276
girls and women that Boko Haram militants herded from bed in the middle of the
night at a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014.
Saturday's
announcement comes nearly a month after 21 Chibok girls were freed in a deal
brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss
government.
That
release followed an apparent split in the terror group, with ISIS introducing a new leader,
according to a Boko Haram insider. Boko Haram has long had links with ISIS,
pledging allegiance to the Islamic militant group in March 2015.
The
Nigerian government last month indicated it was negotiating with the terror
group for the release of about 83 more girls. The rest -- about 113-- have either died, been married off or become radicalized and don't want to leave their Boko Haram kidnappers.
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