Freed Chibok girls in Abuja
By AFP
08 May 2017 |
4:41 am
Eighty-two of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria in 2014 arrive in Abuja after a prisoner swap deal secured their release.
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