Nigeria Chibok girls: Boko Haram

Some 50 girls are shown with a gunman who
demands the release of fighters in return for the
girls, and says some girls died in air strikes.
The government says it is in touch with the militants
behind the video.
A journalist who had contact with Boko Haram has
been declared a wanted man by the Nigerian army.
The group is said to be holding more than 200 of the
276 final-year girls it seized from a school in April
2014.
Non-Muslims were forcibly converted to Islam, and it
is feared that many of the schoolgirls have been
sexually abused and forced into "marriage" by their
captors.
Parents of the missing girls have described their
anguish at seeing their daughters in captivity.
'Forty married'
The video begins with a shot of a masked man,
carrying a gun, speaking to the camera. He says that
some of the girls have been wounded and have life-
threatening injuries, and that 40 have been
"married".
Speaking in the Hausa language, the gunman says the
girls on display will "never" be returned if the
government does not release Boko Haram fighters
who have been "in detention for ages".
I have seen her: Samuel Yaga, father of abducted
schoolgirl Serah Samuel, talking to the BBC Hausa
service
I have watched the video several times. I saw her
sitting down.
The fact is we are overwhelmed with a feeling of
depression. It's like being beaten and being stopped
from crying. You helplessly watch your daughter but
there is nothing you can do. It's a real heartache.
Those who are still alive - we want them back. We
want them back irrespective of their condition.
As ordinary men, there is nothing we [the other
fathers and I] can do on our own. We are just here
unable to do anything with our lives. You see your
child but someone denies you from having it. They
are being forcefully married and they now live in
terrible conditions.
The video concludes with footage of bodies, said to
be the victims of air strikes, lying on the ground at
another location.
The militant also carries out a staged interview with
one of the captives, who calls herself Maida Yakubu,
in which she asks parents to appeal to the
government.
Maida's mother, Esther, is one of several parents of
Chibok girls who recently published open letters to
their daughters detailing the pain they feel at their
children's absence and their hopes for the future.
Another girl among those standing in the background
can be seen with a baby. Some of the girls can be
seen weeping as Maida speaks.
Chibok abductions: What we know
Chibok girl's life with Boko Haram
The town that lost its girls
Boko Haram has waged a violent campaign for years
in northern Nigeria in its quest for Islamic rule, and a
faction of the group recently pledged loyalty to so-
called Islamic State.
Thousands of people have been killed or captured by
the group, whose name translates as "Western
education is forbidden". Many of the girls abducted
in Chibok were Christian.
Bid to pressurise government? Analysis by Tomi
Oladipo, BBC News, Lagos
Boko Haram has always maintained that the Chibok
girls were safe and would only be released if the
Nigerian government gave in to its demands.
Through this video, the group is again trying to make
the government look like the villain for carrying out
air strikes on the militants, which it claims have
backfired and hit the abductees instead.
Reigniting public sympathy for the girls might be an
attempt to force the government to listen. Boko
Haram is attempting to paint the military campaign
against the jihadists as a failure.
It is also significant that this video comes shortly
after a split in the group, with one faction
maintaining that it is the true regional branch of the
so-called Islamic State. The video indicates that the
other faction, led by Abubakar Shekau, is the one
holding the Chibok girls and so it will use this to show
why it cannot be ignored, even if its rivals have
foreign backing.
Nigerian Information Minister Alhaji Mohammed
insisted the government was doing everything
possible to secure the girls' release.
"We are being extremely careful because the
situation has been compounded by the split in the
leadership of Boko Haram," he said.
"We are also being guided by the need to ensure the
safety of the girls."
The video is the first to be seen since CNN obtained
footage in April purportedly showing 15 of the girls.
The Nigerian army declared journalist Ahmad Salkida
a wanted man after he published details of the new
video before it was released.
Salkida, who moved to Dubai a few years ago, has
written extensively about the inside operations of the
group.
The Chibok girls had been thought to be in a heavily
forested area of northern Nigeria.
A girl said to be one of those captured, Amina Ali
Nkeki, was found wandering in the Sambisa Forest in
May by an army-backed vigilante group. B