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Boko Haram, which translates to "Western education is forbidden," abducted more than 200 girls from a secondary school in the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state. They have been held and their fates unknown for weeks amid speculation that some of the girls may have been taken over the borders with Chad and Cameroon. The schoolgirls kidnapped a month ago are shown dressed in full-length, black veils in a video released Monday by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said that the girls, who are Christians, have converted to Islam. He offered to trade them for the group's members imprisoned by the government. "It is now four years or five years that you arrested our brethren and they are still in your prison," Shekau said in the video. "(The girls) are staying (with us). We won't ever release them until our brethren are released."
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