Boko Haram abducts scores of women in Nigeria’s North-east

An unknown number of people, mainly girls and women, have been abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Feb 6 in the Nigerian north eastern province of Gamborou Ngala.

The near 200 victims are internally displaced living in a camp, said the UN as it condemned the kidnapping and urged the immediate release of the victims.

The kidnapping is “a stark reminder that women and girls are among those most affected” by the Islamist insurgency in north-east Nigeria, the UN said in a statement.

The attack marks the second largest kidnapping by Boko Haram since its mass kidnapping of 2014 when it took more than 270 schoolgirls in Chibok town, in the country’s north east.

Ironically, the abduction took place as Borno’s state government says that 95% of Boko Haram fighters were either dead or have surrendered.