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| Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video | Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video |
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| A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 100 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month. | A new video released by Islamist militants Boko Haram claims to show around 100 girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria last month. |
| The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed. | The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said they would be held until all imprisoned militants had been freed. |
| He said the girls had converted to Islam. The video, released on Monday, claims to show them praying. | He said the girls had converted to Islam. The video, released on Monday, claims to show them praying. |
| Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from northern Nigeria on 14 April and threatened to sell them. | Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from northern Nigeria on 14 April and threatened to sell them. |
| The BBC's John Simpson in the northern city of Maiduguri said Boko Haram's comments showed signs that the group was willing to negotiate. | |
| Three of the girls are shown speaking in the 17-minute video, obtained by French news agency AFP, wearing the full-length hijab. | Three of the girls are shown speaking in the 17-minute video, obtained by French news agency AFP, wearing the full-length hijab. |
| Two girls say they were Christian and have converted to Islam, while the other says she is Muslim. | Two girls say they were Christian and have converted to Islam, while the other says she is Muslim. |
| "These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with... we have indeed liberated them. These girls have become Muslims," Abubakar Shekau says in the video. | |
| It is thought the majority of the abducuted girls are Christians, although there are a number of Muslims among them. | |
| Correspondents said the girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed. | Correspondents said the girls appeared calm and one said that they had not been harmed. |
| There is no indication of when or where the video was taken. | |
| It is estimated to show about 130 girls - just under half of the 276 pupils abducted from their school in the northern state of Borno. | |
| Our correspondent says this could mean the group has been split into smaller groups to help avoid detection. | |
| Boko Haram had previously admitted to kidnapping the girls. | |
| The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden," said they should not have been at school and should get married instead. | |
| Boko Haram has been engaged in a violent campaign against the Nigerian government since 2009. |