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Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari speaks with freed Chibok schoolgirl Amina Ali Nkeki, who is carrying her baby, as Borno state governor Kashim Shettima (C) looks on in Abuja, on May 19, 2016. Stringer/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Nigerian President Offers Support After First Of 219 Missing Schoolgirls Rescued

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An aerial photo from March 5, 2015, shows the burned-out school in Chibok, Nigeria, where Boko Haram militants seized 276 teenage schoolgirls on April 14, 2014. Sunday Aghaeze/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The husbands ran when Boko Haram took over the Nigerian village of Gwoza. Fati, 22, was one of the wives left behind. After five months, she and other women escaped and now live in a camp for displaced people. Because of the stigma of being a Boko Haram abductee, she says she sometimes is "verbally abused" by other residents. But she's found one good friend. International Alert/ UNICEF hide caption

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