The violent jihadist group, Boko Haram, is best known for kidnapping 276 girls in Chibok in April 2014.
But that was only one case among many abductions they have carried out across the northeast of Nigeria.
BBC News has heard from a woman who gave birth after Boko Haram militants took control of her village.
The woman, who wants to remain anonymous said:
Boko Haram came to our town and started chasing us and we fled the town. The men went to hilltop and we went to the hospital.
But Boko Haram came, they did not shoot, they just came silently and filled the hospital. I was pregnant when they adopted me.
After
a week, I gave birth. Four days after, I gave birth, we were moved, we
refused to convert. The young men took us to another place. They told me
if I have renounced my religion and I said no and they promised to take
me to a muslim household to be married off.
I told them I would not changed my religion. They were going to kill us but the elders intervened.
“The
woman I was with decided to go over the wall and I followed. We handed
over our children over the wall and that was how we escaped.”
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