ISLAMIC MILITANT group Boko Haram is understood to have taken dozens of women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa.
No official confirmation has been provided by authorities, but local residents in the region claim the group made the kidnappings.
It comes only a day after news broke of a ceasefire organised between government forces and Boko Haram with the agreement for the militants to return over 200 girls abducted this year in April.
Talks are reportedly ongoing between authorities and the group, which is fighting to create its own Islamic state within Nigeria. Boko Haram has not yet confirmed a truce has been agreed.
Nigeria has placed three northeastern states under a state of emergency in order to combat Boko Haram.
The latest reported kidnapping took place on Saturday (Oct 18) when insurgents rounded up the women and girls in the villages of Waga Mangoro and Garta, according to residents.
Founded in 2002, Boko Haram’s name translates as “Western education is forbidden”, and they have been blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in Nigeria since it began launching attacks against the government in 2009.
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