The first of
more than 200 abducted
Chibok schoolgirls to be
rescued from Boko Haram
after two years in captivity
in northeast Nigeria said on
Tuesday in her first
interview that she just wants
to go home.
Amina Ali and her four-
month-old baby were
rescued in May near Damboa
in Borno state by soldiers
and a civilian vigilante
group, more than two years
after being kidnapped by the
Islamist militants from a
school in Chibok in northeast
Nigeria.
After her rescue sparked a
blaze of global media
attention, the 21-year-old
and her child have since
been hidden away in a house
in the capital Abuja for what
the Nigerian government has
called a "restoration
process".
"I just want to go home - I
don't know about school,"
she told the Thomson
Reuters Foundation in an
exclusive interview.
"I will decide about school
when I get back, but I have
no idea when I will be going
home," Ali said, speaking
softly while staring at the
ground.
Boko Haram kidnapped 219
girls from their secondary
school in Chibok in April
2014, as part of an
insurgency which began in
2009 to set up an Islamic
state in the north that has
killed some 15,000 people
and displaced more than 2
million.
Some girls escaped in the
melee but parents of those
still missing accused former
president Goodluck Jonathan,
Nigeria's then leader, of not
doing enough to find their
daughters, whose
disappearance sparked a
global campaign #
bringbackourgirls.
Ali spoke to the Thomson
Reuters Foundation days
after the Islamist group
published a vid