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On Saturday, jubilant families were reunited with the daughters who'd been held captive by Boko Haram for three years.
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It's the largest release of the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Nigeria's Chibok boarding school in April, 2014.
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Forces from 27 countries took part last month in U.S.-led counterterrorism exercises to fight extremist violence by Boko Haram, the flow of foreign fighters and trafficking in the Lake Chad region.
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The horrifying pattern is a sign of shifting strategy for the militant group, now in its eighth year of conflict. Twenty-seven children were used in suicide attacks in the first three months of 2017.
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A report from Human Rights Watch details the sexual exploitation in camps for Nigerians who had fled their homes because of the conflict with Boko Haram.
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Cracks are forming at the highest levels of the Nigeria-based extremist group. The Islamic State has named a new leader and a new strategy for the group, but the old leader says he's still in charge.
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Family and friends are sometimes wary of the girls. They wonder if they've been radicalized or sexually "tainted."
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In April 2014, more than 270 girls were abducted from their dorm rooms in Chibok, Nigeria, in the dead of night. Some escaped their captors, but 219 remained missing.
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Some of the girls and women abducted by Boko Haram have escaped or been rescued. But freedom does not mean an end to their ordeal.
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On the eve of the second anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping — an event that prompted the #BringBackOurGirls movement — CNN is airing a video that purportedly shows 15 of the kidnapped girls.