Missing Chibok schoolgirl rescued from Boko Haram with her baby

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari with 21 Chibok girls who were released by Boko Haram
(Image credit: Philip Ojisua/Getty Images)

A schoolgirl kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 was rescued alive with a 10-month-old baby, the Nigerian military reported Saturday.

One of some 270 girls abducted more than two years ago, Maryam Ali Maiyanga was discovered near the border of Cameroon. Her rescue comes about a month after 21 other girls were released pursuant to negotiations with Boko Haram, which is believed to still hold about 80 girls.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.