Officials of the American airforce have claimed that joint forces have managed to locate the whereabouts
of clusters of missing Chibok schoolgirls who were abducted over two years ago.
A
combination of drone footage, local intelligence and intercepted communication
have been attributed to the successful discovery. The US has
assured that the
girls have not been forgotten, saying that a key concern remains hundreds of
women who have been kept in Boko Haram captivity, often being raped, mutilated
and sometimes even killed. “You’re not just looking for 200 girls. There are
many, many others who have been taken hostage, and more thousands killed, and
two and a half million people displaced,” retired head of the US military
Africa Command, General Carter F. Ham stated. General David M. Rodriguez,
current head at the US military Africa Command, added that the girls have been
kept in smaller groups, which makes rescue missions even more risky. “I want to assure the parents of the Chibok girls and
the parents of any children gone missing that, indeed, the United States is in
this for the long haul,” Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations
stated.
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