ABUJA (Reuters) - quite a hundred women UN agency were abducted by Boko Haram militants within the Nigerian city of Chibok in 2014 area unit able to come back to traditional life once being free and receiving psychological and medical treatment, the govt.
aforementioned on Fri.
Some 270 women were originally kidnapped by the Muslim cluster however eighty two were freed in could this year once mediation, adding to twenty four UN agency were free or found last year. the women are receiving psychological and medical aid within the capital, Abuja, as a part of a government programme.
"All the 106 women area unit currently absolutely recovered, prepared for re-integration with their families and therefore the larger society, and to travel back to highschool," Aisha Jummai Alhassan, minister of girls affairs, told a group discussion.
"They area unit currently stable and most of their traumatic stress disorder symptoms are overcome and antecedently frequent incidents of flashbacks, sleep disorder and nightmares have currently been with success brought in check," she said.
Some of them underwent surgery, and a prosthetic limb was provided for a woman UN agency lost a leg whereas in captivity. Four babies were conjointly aforementioned to be in physiological state.
Of the 270 women UN agency were originally taken, concerning sixty loose shortly after however around a hundred area unit still believed to be in captivity. Alhassan aforementioned negotiations to secure their unleash were current.
Boko Haram has killed quite twenty,000 folks ANd displaced quite 2 million throughout AN eight-year uprising aimed toward making an Muslim caliphate in northeast Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The Chibok case aggravated international outrage and a celebrity-backed campaign to boost awareness of the girls' plight, however aid teams say Boko Haram has abducted thousands additional adults and kids, several of whose cases area unit neglected.
A international organization human rights committee referred to as in Gregorian calendar month for Nigeria's government to improve efforts to rescue all ladies and women kidnapped by Boko Haram and guarantee they came back to highschool while not stigma.
(Reporting by Paul Carsten; Writing by Alexis Akwagyiram; writing by Mark Trevelyan)
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