Nigeria, April 14 -- Between 2016 and 2023, no fewer than 21 Chibok girls who escaped captivity or were rescued by the military, returned with 34 children, a recent report by the Murtala Muhammed Foundation has shown.

The children aged between five months and seven years now live with their mothers who struggle to move on from the trauma they went through.

A screenshot of a propaganda video released by Boko Haram in 2014 after the girls were kidnapped

Some of the mothers, however, returned to their (former) Boko Haram husbands to nurture the children they had together while in captivity.

In the early hours of 14 April 2014, Boko Haram insurgents seized 276 girls from their dormitories at Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Bor...