That Amazing Moment When 82 Chibok Girls And Families Reunited
On Saturday, jubilant families were reunited with the daughters who'd been held captive by Boko Haram for three years.
Picture a kaleidoscope of color and a medley of vivid African print cloth surging forward amid screams and weeping — for joy.
That was the magnificent and moving scene, Saturday, in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, as 82 former Chibok schoolgirls — now young women — were reunited with their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and other family members, after three years in Boko Haram captivity. Tears were streaming down their faces and gave way to broad smiles of happiness and relief after years of torment and trauma and missing their families.
The Chibok girls, as they're called, were released on May 7 in the northeast, after negotiations between the Nigerian government and the homegrown, ISIS-affiliated extremist
