As more people from all around the world band together demanding the release of the girls still held captive by Boko Haram, this story with one girl who managed to escape has been reported.

Science student Sarah Lawan, 19, told the Associated Press on Sunday that more of the 300 girls and young women who were seized could have escaped but they were frightened by their captors’ threats to shoot them.

Lawan spoke in a phone interview from Chibok, her home and the site of the mass abduction in north-east Nigeria. The failure to rescue 276 of the students, who have now been held for four weeks, has prompted international outrage. “I am pained that others could not summon the courage to run away with me,” she said. “Now I cry each time I come across their parents and see how they weep when they see me.” [The Guardian]

In the mean time, a security expert from Nigeria has said that the military group has been “grabbing food” and that this might mean that starvation could lead them to abandon the abducted girls. It has been four weeks since the abductions and still there have been no reports of rescue attempts – perhaps keeping activities quiet prevents tipping off the extremist group but families continue to grieve and endure sleepless nights.

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[Source] The Guardian