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Chibok girls: Second schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6 class&equals;"story-body&lowbar;&lowbar;h1">Nigerian President Buhari receiving Amina Ali Nkeki<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"story-body&lowbar;&lowbar;h1"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290404&semi;"><strong>2 days after rescue of Amina&comma; Nigerian army claims a second schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram<&sol;strong><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290404&semi;"><strong>2 Back&comma; 217 yet to be rescued &&num;8211&semi; many on Twitter are  hoping that the other girls abducted by Boko Haram militants would be found soon<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"story-body&lowbar;&lowbar;h1"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290404&semi;"><strong>Hashtags trending on twitter<&sol;strong><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;290404&semi;"><strong>&num;BringBackOurGirls&comma; &num;Thankscivilianjtf &num;HopeEndures&comma; &num;ChibokGirlAminaAli<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead"><span class&equals;"image-and-copyright-container"><span class&equals;"story-image-copyright"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24104" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89170523&lowbar;combofive&period;jpg" alt&equals;"89170523&lowbar;combofive" width&equals;"976" height&equals;"549" &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;Gallery of some of the kidnapped Chibok teenagers<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A second schoolgirl from the more than 200 seized in the Nigerian town of Chibok has been rescued&comma; the army says&period; Army spokesman Col Usman Sani Kukasheka said more details about the operation would be provided later&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This comes two days after the rescue of the first girl&comma; Amina Ali Nkeki&comma; and her four-month-old baby&period; In all&comma; 217 girls remain missing after their abduction by the Boko Haram Islamist group from a secondary school in north-eastern Nigeria in 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-24081" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;chibok-7ok&period;jpg" alt&equals;"chibok-7ok" width&equals;"673" height&equals;"449" &sol;><strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rescued Chibok shool girl&comma; Amina Nkeki with her child accompanied by her state governor Kashim Shettima&comma; were quickly flown to a closed door meeting with President Buhari  &lpar;in glasses&rpar; and First Lady Dr Aisha Buhari&comma; Wednesday<&sol;strong> in the country&&num;8217&semi;s capital&comma; Abuja<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;" wp-image-24069 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;87399284&lowbar;nigeriaboko&period;png" alt&equals;"87399284&lowbar;nigeriaboko" width&equals;"853" height&equals;"261" &sol;><span class&equals;"image-and-copyright-container"><span class&equals;"off-screen"><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Boko Haram played mind games with Nigerian authorities regarding the whereabouts of the school girls&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"image-and-copyright-container"><span class&equals;"off-screen">Earlier on Thursday&comma; Amina&comma; 19&comma; was flown to the capital Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari&period; Mr Buhari said he was delighted she was back and could resume her education&period; &&num;8220&semi;But my feelings are tinged with deep sadness at the horrors the young girl has had to go through at such an early stage in her life&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Amina and her baby were found by an army-backed vigilante group in the huge Sambisa Forest&comma; close to the border with Cameroon&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was with a suspected commander in the Boko Haram Islamist group&period; He had wandered close to the edge of the forest in search of food as the security forces had cut off their supply lines<&sol;span><&sol;span>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During the April 2014 attack&comma; Boko Haram gunmen arrived in Chibok at night and raided the school dormitories&comma; loading 276 girls onto trucks&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;More than 50 managed to escape within hours&comma; mostly by jumping off the lorries and running into roadside bushes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A video broadcast by CNN in April this year appeared to show some of the kidnapped schoolgirls alive&period; Fifteen girls in black robes were pictured&period; They said they were being treated well but wanted to be with their families&period; The video was allegedly shot on Christmas Day 2015 and some of the girls were identified by their parents&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Chibok schoolgirls&comma; many of whom are Christian&comma; had previously not been seen since May 2014&comma; when Boko Haram released a video of about 130 of them gathered together reciting the Koran&period; The abduction led to the &num;BringBackOurGirls campaign&comma; which was supported by US First Lady Michelle Obama and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"media-landscape has-caption full-width"><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"media-landscape has-caption full-width"><span class&equals;"image-and-copyright-container">  <strong><span class&equals;"story-image-copyright"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24099" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89217151&lowbar;gettyimages-504960234&period;jpg" alt&equals;"89217151&lowbar;gettyimages-504960234" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"351" &sol;><&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;span><strong><span class&equals;"off-screen"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><span class&equals;"media-caption&lowbar;&lowbar;text"><strong>Bring Back Our Girls campaigne has a resurgence<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Another campaign group working for the girls&&num;8217&semi; release&comma; the Pathfinders Justice Initiative&comma; said there was a &&num;8220&semi;renewed sense of energy and hope and excitement&&num;8221&semi; among families of the girls after Ms Nkeki&&num;8217&semi;s escape&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The feeling in Nigeria is that there is &&num;8220&semi;no excuse&&num;8221&semi; for the Nigerian government not to step up efforts to free the remaining captives&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The families &&num;8220&semi;are excited but they have also been disappointed so much in the past&comma; particularly during the Jonathan administration &lbrack;from 2010-2015&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Twitter reactions to the news of Amina&&num;8217&semi;s rescue<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24032" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89731440&lowbar;chibok2&period;png" alt&equals;"89731440&lowbar;chibok2" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"195" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24033" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89732666&lowbar;chibok10&period;png" alt&equals;"89732666&lowbar;chibok10" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24056" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89732668&lowbar;chibok11&period;png" alt&equals;"89732668&lowbar;chibok11" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"181" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24037" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89732664&lowbar;chibok9&period;png" alt&equals;"89732664&lowbar;chibok9" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"151" &sol;><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24039" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89732669&lowbar;chibok12&period;png" alt&equals;"89732669&lowbar;chibok12" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"381" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-24044" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;89732313&lowbar;chibok4&period;png" alt&equals;"89732313&lowbar;chibok4" width&equals;"624" height&equals;"231" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><em><strong>Let us know what you think of this article&period; 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