At least 200 girls and 93 women have been rescued from Sambisa forest today by the Nigerian troops the official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Armed Forces (Defence Headquarters) has said this evening. It also said three camps were destroyed including the notorious Tokumbere forest.
More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from Chibok in northeastern Nigeria by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in April 2014. The militants took the schoolgirls in trucks into the Sambisa Forest and the girls have been missing since then.
The plight of the schoolgirls, who have become known as "the Chibok girls," has garnered international attention and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Their kidnapping brought Boko Haram to the attention of the world, arousing outrage and even U.S. first lady Michelle Obama got engaged, tweeting a photograph of herself with the campaign sign.
The Nigerian army announced two weeks ago that it would go into Sambisa Forest, which is a center for the Boko Haram fighters, and that it believed the schoolgirls may still be there.
Boko Haram has kidnapped an unknown number of girls, women and young men to be used as sex slaves and fighters. Many have escaped or been released as a multinational offensive mounted at the end of January has driven Nigeria's home-grown Islamic militants from almost all towns of the northeast. The only area left in control of Boko Haram was the Sambisa Forest, a national game reserve.
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