With First Images Since Kidnapping, Boko Haram Offers to Swap Nigerian Schoolgirls for Prisoners | Democracy Now!
With First Images Since Kidnapping, Boko Haram Offers to Swap Nigerian Schoolgirls for Prisoners | Democracy Now!:
The Boko Haram has released a video showing the first images of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls since their abduction nearly one month ago. Close to half of the nearly 300 girls are seen on the tape, chanting what appears to be a verse from the Qur’an. The Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appears to offer the girls’ freedom in exchange for the Nigerian government’s release of all the group’s prisoners. We speak with Nigerian journalist Omoyele Sowore, publisher of the online news site Sahara Reporters.
