Chad: Deal to Free Nigerian Girls Still On

A Chadian official says he expects Nigeria's deal with militant group Boko Haram to free more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls will go through, despite the apparent breakdown of a cease-fire. Reuters news agency says Moussa Mahamat Dago, the number-two official in Chad's Foreign Ministry, says Nigeria and Boko Haram have verbally agreed to a series of points, including the release of the schoolgirls and of jailed Boko Haram fighters. Dago says the sides have not yet agreed on the...

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