Drew Henshaw & Mbenga Akingbule:
Hunters helping Nigerian soldiers battle Boko Haram found one of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from the town of Chibok, activists and the military said, the first of the captives to escape the Islamist insurgency in nearly two years.
The 19-year-old, identified as Amina Ali Nkeki, was found wandering near a mostly abandoned village early Wednesday morning by the hunters in the Sambisa forest, said officials and members of the #BringBackOurGirls activist group. Ms. Nkeki was breastfeeding her baby daughter; the military said she was with a man officials took to be her husband from a forced marriage.
The teenager was initially driven to her hometown of Chibok in a procession of pickup trucks and briefly reunited with her mother.
“She was not in a good condition,” said Elijah Dauda, the chairman of a local vigilante group. “Immediately she came in asking for bread.”