Boko Haram Sends Abducted Girls & Women to Fight Against Military

Boko Haram has forced abducted women and Chibok school girls to go to the battle front line to help fight the military, a new report says. The group has taken more than 500 women and girls hostage since it began its insurgency in 2009, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report adds.

Suspected militants seized about 30 children on Thursday, despite government claims of a truce. The group had intensified abductions since May 2013, when Nigeria's government imposed a state of emergency in the three states where Boko Haram was most active - Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, HRW said.