Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“We had to meet Lisu in secret as she says the local Nigerian authorities are trying to prevent her from talking to journalists. She was one of the 276 girls abducted from their school in the town of Chibok exactly a decade ago …. More than 180 have either since escaped or been freed, including Lisu, who gave birth to two children while she was a hostage of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, living in a hideout in the Sambisa forest. After escaping, Lisu – which is not her real name – went through the government rehabilitation programme, before being placed in group accommodation with other escapees. ‘I do regret coming back,’ she says, shuffling in her seat. Not exactly the message the authorities want coming out. Lisu feels the way she is now treated is worse than what she lived through before.” (04/14/24)