After escaping Boko Haram kidnappers nearly a decade ago, survivors Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu have reached even greater heights by graduating college from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

Robert Smith offers full scholarships to freed Nigerian schoolgirls. Boko Haram recently released 21 Chibok girls from captivity.

Boko Haram released a new video of the abducted Chibok school girls. They're offering to release them in exchange for captured fighters.

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Activists have identified the victim as Amina ali Darsha Nkeki, the report states. She is the first of the girls rescued from the 2014 mass kidnapping that sparked the hashtag and search movement #BringBackOurGirls.

Two female suicide bombers between the ages of 17 and 20 reportedly blew themselves up this week in a camp in northeastern Nigeria designed to protect people trying to escape Boko Haram terrorists, killing at least 58 people.

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Houses were torched, suicide bombers detonated devices and militants opened fire near Nigeria's largest northeastern city.

A young pregnant woman was fatally stabbed in the Bronx, a helicopter crash in New Zealand kills seven, and more.

Boko Haram has surpassed the number of fatalities claimed by the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS).

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The attack believed to be spearheaded by Boko Haram is the latest of a 6-year reign of terror that has left thousands dead in Nigeria.

General Tukur Buratai was in Maidguri, Borno, to inspect troops' resources and capabilities in defeating the infamous terrorist group.