The full list of all the 21 Chibok girls released by Boko Haram today in a deal carried out by the Nigerian Department of State Security (DSS) and intermediated by the Swiss government.
1. Maryam Usman
2. Jummai John
3. Blessing Abana
4. Lugwu Sanda
5. Comfort Habila
6. Maryam Basheer
7. Comfort Amos
8. Glory Mainta
9. Saratu Emmanuel
10. Deborah Ja'afaru
11. Rahap Ibrahim
12. Helen Musa
13. MaryamLawal
14. Rebecca Ibrahim
15. Asabe Goni
16. Deborah Andraus
17. Agnes Gabani
18. Saratu Marcus
19. Glory Damma
20. Binda Nuhu
21. Rebecca Malo
2. Jummai John
3. Blessing Abana
4. Lugwu Sanda
5. Comfort Habila
6. Maryam Basheer
7. Comfort Amos
8. Glory Mainta
9. Saratu Emmanuel
10. Deborah Ja'afaru
11. Rahap Ibrahim
12. Helen Musa
13. MaryamLawal
14. Rebecca Ibrahim
15. Asabe Goni
16. Deborah Andraus
17. Agnes Gabani
18. Saratu Marcus
19. Glory Damma
20. Binda Nuhu
21. Rebecca Malo
The Boko Haram terrorist group handed over 21 Chibok schoolgirls to authorities Thursday after a series of negotiations, Nigeria's government said, in the first mass release of any of the more than 200 girls and women kidnapped from their school two years ago.
The 21 were freed before dawn in the northeastern Nigerian town of Banki, near the border with Cameroon, a source close to the negotiations said on condition of anonymity.
Some of the 21 freed girls appear Thursday in Banki, Nigeria, in a photo obtained exclusively by CNN.
They are said to have been among the 276 girls and women, ages 16 to 18, that Boko Haram militants herded from bed in the middle of the night at a boarding school in Chibok in April 2014 -- a kidnapping that spurred global outrage.
A child born to one of the girls and believed by medical personnel to be about 20 months old also was released, according to the Nigerian president's office.
As many as 57 girls escaped almost immediately in 2014, and one was found this spring. Just under 200 remain unaccounted for after their release.
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