Boko ready to discuss release of 83 girls

19 October 2016 - 09:56
By Reuters

Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which last week freed 21 of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls it kidnapped in April 2014 in northeast Nigeria, is willing to negotiate the release of another 83 girls, says President Muhammadu Buhari's spokesman. Around 220 girls were taken from their school in Chibok where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency, killing thousands and displacing more than two million people.

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