Missing Chibok girl found in Sambisa, rescued by Vigilantes

One of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, Amina Ali has been found, #BringBackOurGirls

She was found deep into the Sambisa Forest by a group of Vigilantes on patrol.

Amina was found near the border between Nigeria and Cameroon.

She was taken to her home in Chibok for confirmation and thereafter taken to Army command where she will be debriefed.

Amina was reportedly identified by a civilian fighter who recognised her. The fighter belonged to the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), a vigilante group set up to help fight Boko Haram.

In all, 218 girls remain missing after their abduction from a secondary school in north-east Nigeria in April 2014. The girls were taken by militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group.

Activists told the BBC that Amina Ali Nkek was found by a vigilante group on Tuesday in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon.

News of the rescue was confirmed to the BBC by Nigerian university teacher and women’s activist Hauwa Abdu.

Sources told the BBC she came from the town of Mbalala, south of Chibok, from where 25 of the kidnapped girls came. A neighbour in Mbalala told the BBC that Amina was found with a baby.

An uncle, YaKubu Nkeki, told Associated Press news agency that Amina was later reunited with her mother in Chibok.

She is expected to be moved soon to Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state.

In recent days, Nigerian media reported that the army had launched a number of operations against Boko Haram in the Sambisa Forest.

Nigeria’s military has not yet commented on the latest raid.

During the 2014 attack, the gunmen arrived in Chibok late at night, then raided the school dormitories and loaded 276 girls on to trucks. #BringBackOurGirls

Some managed to escape within hours of their kidnapping, mostly by jumping off the lorries and running off into the bushes.

A video broadcast by CNN in April 2016 appeared to show some of the kidnapped schoolgirls alive.

Fifteen girls in black robes were pictured. They said they were being treated well but wanted to be with their families.

The video was allegedly shot on Christmas Day 2015 and some of the girls were identified by their parents.

The Chibok schoolgirls, many of whom are Christian, had previously not been seen since May 2014, when Boko Haram released a video of around 130 of them gathered together reciting the Koran.

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