Nigeria forces purge terrorists, free 90 captives
Nigerian soldiers have rooted out the terrorists of the Boko Haram Takfiri group from two villages in the country’s northeast, freeing 90 people.
Acting army spokesman Sani Usman said in a statement on Friday that "troops rescued 23 men, 33 women and 34 children from the terrorists" a day earlier.
The development came after the troops purged the villages of Dissa and Balazala, located in the conflict-stricken Borno State, of militants.
The military said it had also reopened a primary school in the nearby town of Gwoza after the militants had forced it to shut down.
The group continues to hold more than 200 schoolgirls it kidnapped from their secondary school in the northeastern town of Chibok on April 14, 2014.
Also on Friday, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said the militancy waged by the Nigerian terrorist group had forced around 1.4 million children in the Lake Chad region to flee.
The Boko Haram militancy began in 2009, when the terrorist group started an armed rebellion against the Nigerian government. Latest figures show about 20,000 people have been killed since then.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power in late May, replaced the heads of the army, navy, and air force as well as the chief of defense staff in an effort to re-energize the fight against Boko Haram. He has vowed to end Boko Haram’s militancy by November.
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