Ten years on from Chibok, what happened to the 276 Nigerian girls snatched from their school?

Many of the Chibok girls who returned home, some of whom gave birth while in captivity, have been shunned by their communities, stigmatised for becoming victims of the Islamist militants. There has also been resentment in parts of the north-east over the publicity given to the girls. Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

When her Boko Haram captors told Margret Yama she would be going home, she thought it was a trick. She and the other girls kidnapped from their school in Chibok, in north-east Nigeria’s Borno state, had been held for three years and had been taunted before about the possibility of release.

Conditions where they were being held in Sambisa Forest were harsh. Food and water were limited, the work was hard and the surveillance from the Islamist militants was suffocating. But then came the day in May 2017 when the girls were escorted to a Red Cross convoy on the edges of the forest.