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Nigeria's Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped girls for prisoners

Nigeria's Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped girls for prisoners
A snapshot from the video released by Boko Haram. The group's leader claimed all the girls have been converted to Islam.

By Reuters

Nigeria: The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday.

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