The 21 high school girls freed by the Boko Haram said they have been without food for more than a month

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The 21 high school girls in Chibok city, freed by their captors from the Islamist Boko Haram group after being held captive for more than two years were reunited eventually with their families on Sunday in Abuja and began to talk about the difficult conditions they had while in captivity, says AFP.

In a religious ceremony held in their honor, one of these young girls called Gloria Dame, said that she and her colleagues have spent a month and ten days without food before being released and that a Nigerian military bomb almost killed them.

‘We thank God that got us together again today. I was in a forest when a plane launched a bomb near me, but I was not hurt,’ she said, visibly excited and extremely weak.

‘We haven’t had food for one month and ten days, but I did not die, thank God,’ said the young Nigerian in Hausa language.

The girl spoke about their captivity during a ceremony organized by the Nigerian security services (DSS), which were at their release after negotiations with the Boko Haram Islamists.

The ceremony was interrupted suddenly when the parents of the girls who were abducted in April 2014 broke into tears, taking them into their arms.

‘We can see all the emotion and joy of parents,’ said the information minister, Lai Mohammed, in a closing speech.

He added that ‘the negotiations (with Boko Haram) will not be concluded until all the girls will be released.’

‘Negotiations are still ongoing. Soon other girls will be released,’ the minister said, without further specification.

The release of 21 high school students from Chibok, kidnapped along with over 200 of their colleagues in less than two years, was one of the focal points of the Muhammadu Buhari campaign candidate, elected president in May 2015.

Reported by media, this mass abduction caused a powerful wave of indignation worldwide, particularly on the social network Twitter, where including the first lady Michelle Obama expressed about it.