Boko Haram Said To Be Willing To Swap Kidnapped Girls For Detainees
July 09 2015
The Boko Haram Islamist group is offering to release more than 200 young women kidnapped last year in exchange for the release of militant leaders, says a human-rights activist cited by Fox News.
The offer is limited to the girls abducted from the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok in April 2014, according to the activist.
The militants have agreed in principle to release the girls in exchange for 16 members of Boko Haram held by the Nigerian government, the activist said...
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