It was reported that 99 people taken hostage by the terrorist organization Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria were rescued.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, posted on his X account that the army organized operations against Boko Haram terrorists hiding in the Sambisa Forest in Borno state.
Makama noted that 99 people, including 41 women, taken hostage by Boko Haram were rescued during the operations.
Stating that one of the female students and two children who were taken hostage in a school raid organized by Boko Haram in 2014 were among those rescued, Makama said that the children were malnourished and traumatized.
Boko Haram, which has been present in Nigeria since the early 2000s, has killed tens of thousands of people in mass violence since 2009.
Since 2015, the group has also carried out attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger, the country’s border neighbors.
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram raided a boarding school in the town of Chibok in Borno state in the northeast of the country and abducted 276 schoolgirls.
Amnesty International announced that some of the students were rescued or managed to escape after the raid, while 82 of them have been in captivity for 10 years.
