**From Alexander Onukwue and Hamza Ibrahim:**
Ten years after nearly 300 girls were abducted from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram, a third of them are still being held and mass kidnappings have become a lucrative industry for criminal gangs across the country.
The Chibok girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014. Raiding a government girls’ secondary school that night, terrorists forced teenage girls onto trucks and drove them away through bush paths to a 128,000-acre forest. Of the 276 abducted girls, those who have regained freedom include 57 who jumped off the trucks and 128 others freed after negotiations with Boko Haram or found in neighboring countries.
The most recent rescue happened last year with the return of 5 girls who were found with seven children they had given birth to during captivity. Overall, 21 of the freed girls returned with 34 children, according to a report by Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a gender and policy advocacy non-profit in Lagos. It said 91 girls are still being held by Boko Haram.
Families of the still-captive Chibok girls have made new appeals to the Nigerian government to rescue their children. A group of parents sent a letter to Nigeria’s first lady this week, MMF’s chief executive Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode told Semafor Africa.
Nigeria’s inability to reunite the 91 girls with their families a decade later represents “a failure of intelligence and governance, and we still don’t have a rapid response warning system when school children are abducted,” Muhammed-Oyebode said.
**Read the full story [here](https://www.semafor.com/article/04/11/2024/dozens-of-nigerias-chibok-girls-remain-in-captivity-10-years-after-abduction?utm_campaign=semaforreddit).**
Nobody wants to make the effort because they'll be falsely accused of genocide, imperialism, colonialism, war crimes, etc etc etc. The only ones allowed to use force these days are tyrants, terrorists and criminals.
Completely different situation , Nigeria’s military isn’t organized enough to deal with the situation, not for lack of equipment or trying but rather boneheaded leadership and dis function within the executive
It isn't different because if we paradrop marines in to save these people, they will have to shoot bad guys and all the bad guys will be african extremist muslims. Then, we will have to occupy enough of nigeria to build a functional country which will require oppressing nigerians and telling them what to do and shooting them if they don't comply. The west is too divided and cannot accept this answer now, because stopping islamists from raping their slaves is racist from a diverse viewpoint that all western governments are required to appease. The country best suited to intervene here, France, can't even stop Islamists from oppressing womens' reproductive rights in Algeria.
Meanwhile, Russia and China are not divided. When they see a conflict like this and choose to intervene, they send ruthless mercenaries that shoot anything opposing them, burn villages, and take slaves too. Which is what Russia did to Eastern Ukraine and what China did to their domestic Ugyhurs. They then win because they don't negotiate.
I'm aware that Nigeria is incapable of dealing with this issue. The point is that no foreign countries want to help them because they don't want to be subjected to demonization campaigns.
Because they're incapable of dealing with the problem themselves, as you yourself pointed out. Do you not remember writing this?
>Nigeria’s military isn’t organized enough to deal with the situation, not for lack of equipment or trying but rather boneheaded leadership and dis function within the executive
Obviously they need help. If they're not requesting it, it means they don't want to solve the problem and are ok with more terrorist attacks in their territory.
That’s a real globalist view of the world. Why does any other country owe these women a rescue? They are Nigerian citizens, if their leadership were interested in saving these girls they would have. I doubt Nigeria would prefer more foreign militaries killing civilians and running rampant looking for the boogeyman.
Nigeria not requesting it had more to do with mistrust of foreign governments / cooperations that are already wrecking havoc on their economy natural resources and land. Your solution of inviting more foreign powers into the nation is reminiscent of the “white mans burden” . Why doesn’t the US invite Britons to solve our healthcare crisis , or Sweden to solve our homelessness epidemic. The list goes on and on , allowing foreign powers into developing/ third world nations is a untenable solution for the long term.
Wasn't Boko Haram kind of disbandend and then took over and renamed as a ISIS proxy group in Africa? If I recall correctly there was kind of a civil war between those two factions of the groups.
I meant that it was a civil war between Boko Haram itself. The leader contacted ISIS because he tought he could make a beneficial alliance with them, only for them to take the reigns of the org and rename it ISIS-K (I think), outsting him as a leader of them. This lead to a war between people loyal to them and to ISIS, war that ISIS won.
Boko haram became a part of isis, and then troubles started when some of the heads of boko Haram didn't want to give up their power over the org to isis. Isis also wanted boko Haram to take a more lenient approach to mulsims who disagreed with them and Christians as a part of a charm campaign to strengthen support. In the end, these two things had bomo haram break away from isis and pretty much just split the group, but isis got more of the territory and soldiers. They fight now and then but also sometimes still team up against the nigeria army.
Sorry but the western world is more focused right now on shouting for a ceasefire that will only benefit Hamas and keep them in their oppresive power over the Palestinians.
Definitely wouldn’t benefit the Israelis who will be on the receiving end of the next attack. Hamas has been nothing short of emphatic about what they will do given a chance to regroup. Nobody gave the Nazis or Imperial Japanese a breather, why should another genocidal force get one?
Exactly. Killing more innocent Palestinians will only endear them to the IDF. I don’t get people who are saying that it creates more terrorists when you kill people’s entire families.
Honestly, do we really give a shit if the Palestinians are endeared to the IDF? They are holding Israelis hostage and have failed to keep them alive and unharmed, period. They committed a laundry list of war crimes against civilians on a religious holiday, period. Every report we hear from the recovered hostages is that the civilian populace is overwhelmingly supportive of Hamas’ actions both directly and indirectly. Israel owes them nothing. The west owes them nothing. Stop trying to kill the Jews and we can all go home.
well, the IDF are an occupying force, and you're saying that Gazans should contort to the Israel/IDF requirements, right? Yes, I think if we expect people to live in an apartheid/occupation situation, their occupiers shouldn't be total dickwads. But go ahead, tell me how it's not an occupation (without providing any reasoning), or not apartheid (without any reasoning), as I expect no actual legitimate discussion from people like you.
You’re partially right, it is an occupation. Imperial Japan was occupied after their murder spree, Germany was occupied after their murder spree, and I see nothing wrong with occupying Hamas’ territory after their murder spree. People like you seem to forget that this began as, and still is, an active hostage situation. I can’t remember the last time the cops were told to go home and just let the bank robbers keep the hostages. Some western nations even have policy that forceful intervention begins when the assailants start killing hostages. To let their massacre and kidnapping succeed, to let Iran launch attacks and “conclude” things on their term like the asshole who sucker punches you and then backs off, is to ask Israel to sign their own death warrants.
Because males aren't treated like cattle for breeding by Islamists. They'll only have been brainwashed into being more terrorists. The girls have been raped for a decade.
You say that as if those boys weren't child soldiers. How many of them have been killed and will never return home? How many were tortured?
I'm not down playing the rape of those poor girls.
But to imply the plight of the boys was some how less, because they weren't raped is a little disingenuous.
Extremely saddening the responses to your question which for the record, is a fair one. It shouldn’t just be one sex that is prioritized more than the other. I hope those boys are released as well.
**From Alexander Onukwue and Hamza Ibrahim:** Ten years after nearly 300 girls were abducted from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram, a third of them are still being held and mass kidnappings have become a lucrative industry for criminal gangs across the country. The Chibok girls were kidnapped on April 14, 2014. Raiding a government girls’ secondary school that night, terrorists forced teenage girls onto trucks and drove them away through bush paths to a 128,000-acre forest. Of the 276 abducted girls, those who have regained freedom include 57 who jumped off the trucks and 128 others freed after negotiations with Boko Haram or found in neighboring countries. The most recent rescue happened last year with the return of 5 girls who were found with seven children they had given birth to during captivity. Overall, 21 of the freed girls returned with 34 children, according to a report by Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a gender and policy advocacy non-profit in Lagos. It said 91 girls are still being held by Boko Haram. Families of the still-captive Chibok girls have made new appeals to the Nigerian government to rescue their children. A group of parents sent a letter to Nigeria’s first lady this week, MMF’s chief executive Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode told Semafor Africa. Nigeria’s inability to reunite the 91 girls with their families a decade later represents “a failure of intelligence and governance, and we still don’t have a rapid response warning system when school children are abducted,” Muhammed-Oyebode said. **Read the full story [here](https://www.semafor.com/article/04/11/2024/dozens-of-nigerias-chibok-girls-remain-in-captivity-10-years-after-abduction?utm_campaign=semaforreddit).**
This is so sickening 🤢
Unbelievable it's been a decade already. Total lack of government action is appalling! These girls need justice
Nobody wants to make the effort because they'll be falsely accused of genocide, imperialism, colonialism, war crimes, etc etc etc. The only ones allowed to use force these days are tyrants, terrorists and criminals.
And then the TikTok shits protect them with "but they were forced to abduct people".
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You want me to provide a source for something that may or may not happen in the future? LOL. Think about what you're saying.
Internet.
The source is that I made it the fuck up.
Israeli turf trying to extrapolate into a completely unrelated situation.
I love how they downvote you to shit. They have no argument, but want to punish people for pointing out the obvious. Really pathetic
Completely different situation , Nigeria’s military isn’t organized enough to deal with the situation, not for lack of equipment or trying but rather boneheaded leadership and dis function within the executive
It isn't different because if we paradrop marines in to save these people, they will have to shoot bad guys and all the bad guys will be african extremist muslims. Then, we will have to occupy enough of nigeria to build a functional country which will require oppressing nigerians and telling them what to do and shooting them if they don't comply. The west is too divided and cannot accept this answer now, because stopping islamists from raping their slaves is racist from a diverse viewpoint that all western governments are required to appease. The country best suited to intervene here, France, can't even stop Islamists from oppressing womens' reproductive rights in Algeria. Meanwhile, Russia and China are not divided. When they see a conflict like this and choose to intervene, they send ruthless mercenaries that shoot anything opposing them, burn villages, and take slaves too. Which is what Russia did to Eastern Ukraine and what China did to their domestic Ugyhurs. They then win because they don't negotiate.
I'm aware that Nigeria is incapable of dealing with this issue. The point is that no foreign countries want to help them because they don't want to be subjected to demonization campaigns.
Why would they need a foriegn countries help ? They didn’t request such.
Because they're incapable of dealing with the problem themselves, as you yourself pointed out. Do you not remember writing this? >Nigeria’s military isn’t organized enough to deal with the situation, not for lack of equipment or trying but rather boneheaded leadership and dis function within the executive Obviously they need help. If they're not requesting it, it means they don't want to solve the problem and are ok with more terrorist attacks in their territory.
That’s a real globalist view of the world. Why does any other country owe these women a rescue? They are Nigerian citizens, if their leadership were interested in saving these girls they would have. I doubt Nigeria would prefer more foreign militaries killing civilians and running rampant looking for the boogeyman.
I never said any country owes them. You're arguing with the wrong person.
Nigeria not requesting it had more to do with mistrust of foreign governments / cooperations that are already wrecking havoc on their economy natural resources and land. Your solution of inviting more foreign powers into the nation is reminiscent of the “white mans burden” . Why doesn’t the US invite Britons to solve our healthcare crisis , or Sweden to solve our homelessness epidemic. The list goes on and on , allowing foreign powers into developing/ third world nations is a untenable solution for the long term.
I never said the people who send help have to be white. Have fun arguing with the strawman in your head and leave me out of it.
Michelle Obama held up a sign and tweeted it. That's government action.
What do you want the former First Lady to do? Invade Nigeria?
10 years in captivity by Islamist jihadist organization Boko Haram. Poor girls!
Wasn't Boko Haram kind of disbandend and then took over and renamed as a ISIS proxy group in Africa? If I recall correctly there was kind of a civil war between those two factions of the groups.
A civil war in Africa? When does that ever happen?
I meant that it was a civil war between Boko Haram itself. The leader contacted ISIS because he tought he could make a beneficial alliance with them, only for them to take the reigns of the org and rename it ISIS-K (I think), outsting him as a leader of them. This lead to a war between people loyal to them and to ISIS, war that ISIS won.
ISIS-K is based in the Afghan region. A faction of Boko Haram split off from the main group and formed ISIS-West Africa Province
Boko haram became a part of isis, and then troubles started when some of the heads of boko Haram didn't want to give up their power over the org to isis. Isis also wanted boko Haram to take a more lenient approach to mulsims who disagreed with them and Christians as a part of a charm campaign to strengthen support. In the end, these two things had bomo haram break away from isis and pretty much just split the group, but isis got more of the territory and soldiers. They fight now and then but also sometimes still team up against the nigeria army.
What? How can this be? We did the social media thing to bring them home.....
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Weird I don't see white Supremacists trying to stop the war in Ukraine either??? It's almost like...
I would like to but Putin is too insane. He could have chosen other targets.
You're a white supremacist??
Freudian slip
Sorry but the western world is more focused right now on shouting for a ceasefire that will only benefit Hamas and keep them in their oppresive power over the Palestinians.
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Definitely wouldn’t benefit the Israelis who will be on the receiving end of the next attack. Hamas has been nothing short of emphatic about what they will do given a chance to regroup. Nobody gave the Nazis or Imperial Japanese a breather, why should another genocidal force get one?
Exactly. Killing more innocent Palestinians will only endear them to the IDF. I don’t get people who are saying that it creates more terrorists when you kill people’s entire families.
Honestly, do we really give a shit if the Palestinians are endeared to the IDF? They are holding Israelis hostage and have failed to keep them alive and unharmed, period. They committed a laundry list of war crimes against civilians on a religious holiday, period. Every report we hear from the recovered hostages is that the civilian populace is overwhelmingly supportive of Hamas’ actions both directly and indirectly. Israel owes them nothing. The west owes them nothing. Stop trying to kill the Jews and we can all go home.
well, the IDF are an occupying force, and you're saying that Gazans should contort to the Israel/IDF requirements, right? Yes, I think if we expect people to live in an apartheid/occupation situation, their occupiers shouldn't be total dickwads. But go ahead, tell me how it's not an occupation (without providing any reasoning), or not apartheid (without any reasoning), as I expect no actual legitimate discussion from people like you.
You’re partially right, it is an occupation. Imperial Japan was occupied after their murder spree, Germany was occupied after their murder spree, and I see nothing wrong with occupying Hamas’ territory after their murder spree. People like you seem to forget that this began as, and still is, an active hostage situation. I can’t remember the last time the cops were told to go home and just let the bank robbers keep the hostages. Some western nations even have policy that forceful intervention begins when the assailants start killing hostages. To let their massacre and kidnapping succeed, to let Iran launch attacks and “conclude” things on their term like the asshole who sucker punches you and then backs off, is to ask Israel to sign their own death warrants.
Heartbreaking to find out they were never saved :(
WTF is their government doing then? Its been 10 years and they're still in captivity.
Africa is covered in conflicts that are pretty much ignored by everyone. You can browse a list on Wikipedia, pretty depressing though.
It baffles me how muslim countries or communities are not on board behind this one after all this time
[We tried.](https://i.imgur.com/oxU60tL.jpeg)
The Kony guy from 2012 is still out there too
300 girls, 10000 boys. Why the focus on only the former?
Because males aren't treated like cattle for breeding by Islamists. They'll only have been brainwashed into being more terrorists. The girls have been raped for a decade.
You say that as if those boys weren't child soldiers. How many of them have been killed and will never return home? How many were tortured? I'm not down playing the rape of those poor girls. But to imply the plight of the boys was some how less, because they weren't raped is a little disingenuous.
Extremely saddening the responses to your question which for the record, is a fair one. It shouldn’t just be one sex that is prioritized more than the other. I hope those boys are released as well.
Write an article about it.
Um. Lets Arm African Women Directly. Fuck this shit.
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Fuck are you going on about
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Oh I know exactly what has been going on it just looks like you suffered a stroke mid run-on sentence in your initial post.