A decade on, tragedy of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls endures outside the spotlight

Yagana Yamani, 25, one of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory by Boko Haram Islamist militants in 2014, spreads her laundry on a clothesline in her home in Chibok, Nigeria April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja

CHIBOK, Nigeria (Reuters) - Ten years ago, Solomon Maina's daughter, Debora, was one of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in the middle of the night by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants.

Global outrage was swift. A ubiquitous "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign, drawing support from the likes of Michelle Obama and Sylvester Stallone, shined a spotlight on the abductions. Then, in 2016 and 2017, negotiations led to the highly publicised liberation of around 100 of the captives.