Last Updated: 1 hour ago Some of the hundreds of girls and women rescued in a series of military raids on Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest have confirmed that they have tested positive to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) upon regaining their freedom. In separate interviews with New York Times, the women described how they were locked in houses in dozens, and subjected to be at the beck and call of militants who forced them to have sex, sometimes with the specific goal of impregnating them. “They married me,” said Hamsatu, 25, a young woman in a black-and-purple head scarf, looking down at the ground. She said she was four months pregnant, that the father was a Boko Haram member [...]

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