The women and children have been evacuated to join others at the place of ongoing screening
Browsing: Sambisa Forest
“They have been evacuated to a safety zone for further processing,” Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement without specifying the number of people saved from the group, which seeks to create a caliphate in western Africa
Sambisa forest is the only known territory still being controlled by the Boko Haram terrorists until the military stepped in about two weeks ago
A vigilante and a security source both confirmed the pullback from the Sambisa forest, a day after an offensive aimed at rooting out the insurgents
Nigeria’s military, backed by troops from neighbouring countries, launched an offensive against Boko Haram in February – and has recaptured most of the territory the militants had taken in the previous year
Jonathan, who gave this assurance when he received four International Election Monitoring Groups, said already Nigerian soldiers had successfully liberated Adamawa and Yobe State from the menace of insurgency
A statement by the Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said apart from those captured in the course of fighting, many arrests of terrorists hiding in the town are being made and troops are still busy interrogating the suspects
A top military source told Channels Television that the air forces bombarded the insurgents, before ground forces moved in and incapacitated the insurgents
The HRW publication provides details of how hundreds of girls and women aged between 15 and 22 were being made to suffer other forms of abuses and used for ambushes
The #BringBackOurGirls campaigners Tuesday in Abuja said the occasion of Nigeria’s 54th Independence Day calls for sincere sober reflections in view of the fact that the abducted Chibok girls are still in captivity.
Jonathan has been criticized for not visiting the town since the incident