A faction of Boko Haram which last week freed 21 of more than 219 Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 is willing to negotiate the release of 83 more of the girls, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman said.
Around 219 girls were taken from their school in 2014 in Chibok in northeastern Borno state, where Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic state, killing thousands and displacing more than two million people.
Several months after one of the girls was found, a faction of the militant group released 21 of the girls on Thursday. The Red Cross and the Swiss government brokered the deal.