Nigeria’s Chibok girls kidnapping: 10 years later, a struggle to move on

Chibok schoolgirls freed from captivity are photographed in Abuja, Nigeria, in May 2017 [File: Sunday Alamba/AP]

Maiduguri, Nigeria – It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a decade.

In her home in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city at the heart of 15 years of fighting by the armed group, the mother of three ruminated on life as a free woman.