Country: Nigeria

Parents of a group of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls have demanded the government do more to rescue them, after their captors released an apparent ‘proof of life’ video.

In Nigeria, more than 80 schoolgirls who were kidnapped from the town of Chibok three years ago have been reunited with their families.

Nigeria schoolgirls: Kidnap victim: One of the teenage girls kidnapped in 2014 by the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram has been rescued on the outskirts of an area controlled by the militants.

In Nigeria, more than 80 school girls who were kidnapped from the town of Chibok three years ago have been reunited with their families.

One of the more bizarre and troubling global events of 2014 was the kidnap of nearly 300 teenage girls in Nigeria.

US President Barack Obama has told Nigeria that the United States will do everything it can to help find more than 200 kidnapped school girls but just as the US assistance was being announced, the Islamist group Boko Haram took another eight children in the country’s north.

The parents of a large group of school girls kidnapped in Nigeria say more than 200 are still missing, many more than official figures

Proof of life: Parents in Nigeria today got the pictures they were desperate to see – a video showing dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls together.

In Nigeria, authorities have rescued one of the teenage girls kidnapped two years ago by the extremist group Boko Haram.

Parents of a large group of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria say more than 200 are still missing, far more than official figures.