Abducted Chibok girls spotted

Recent U.S. surveillance flights over
northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to
be large groups of girls held together in
remote locations, raising hopes among
domestic and foreign officials that they are
among the group that Boko Haram abducted
from a boarding school in April, Premium
Times reports.
The surveillance suggests that at least some of
the 219 schoolgirls still held captive haven’t
been forced into marriage or sex slavery, but
instead are being used as bargaining chips for
the release of prisoners.
President Goodluck Jonathan, who faces re-
election in 2015, is under political pressure to
secure the girls’ release, with some people
urging him to agree to a prisoner swap offered
by the terrorists.