Nigeria armed force 'knows where Boko Haram are holding young ladies'

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An arrangement to free 50 of the young ladies as an exchange for the arrival of 100 Boko Haram prisoners failed to work out, as Will Ross reports

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The Nigerian military say they know where the young ladies seized by Boko Haram are yet they won't endeavor a salvage.

Nigeria's Chief of Defense Staff said it was "uplifting news for the folks," in spite of the fact that he conceded the military would not hazard "running there with energy."

More than 200 young ladies were snatched by Boko Haram shooters from their school in northern Nigeria in April.

Prior, the BBC discovered that an arrangement to discharge a percentage of the young ladies was close however was canceled by the legislature.

The BBC's Will Ross in Abuja says a go-between met pioneers of the Islamist aggregate and went to the spot where they were being held.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sits nearby Cameroon President Paul Biya, left, and French President Francois Hollande at a summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris - 17 May 2014 An arrangement to discharge a percentage of the young ladies was close however President Jonathan hauled out after the Paris summit

He says assention was practically arrived at to discharge 50 of the young ladies in return for the arrival of 100 Boko Haram detainees.

Be that as it may the Nigerian government hauled out of the arrangement after President Goodluck Jonathan went to a gathering on the emergency in Paris. The explanations behind the withdrawal are indistinct.

Nigeria's administration is under weight to accomplish more to handle the gathering and achieve the young ladies' discharge.

Many individuals have passed on since Boko Haram started a brutal crusade against the Nigerian government in 2009 and in the ensuing security crackdown.

'Uplifting news

Head of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said on Monday that "the uplifting news for the folks of the young ladies is that we know where they are" yet said he couldn't uncover the area.

"Yet where they are held, would we be able to run there with energy? We can't execute our young ladies for the sake of attempting to get them back," he included.

Head of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh, front, and other military boss hold up to address dissenters in Abuja, Nigeria - 26 May 2014 Air Marshal Alex Badeh, front, told dissidents in Abuja on Monday that Nigeria "will recover the young ladies"

Mr Badeh was tending to demonstrators who had walked to the service of barrier in Abuja in backing of the military's battle against Boko Haram.

"No one ought to come and say the Nigerian military does not recognize what its doing," he told the swarm. "We recognize what we are doing."

"The president is positively behind us. The president has enabled us to do the work," Mr Badeh said.

The young ladies, who were chiefly Christian, are thought to be held in a remote forested range of the north-eastern Borno state, near the outskirt with Chad and Cameroon.

Nigeria awhile ago demanded it would not consent to free Boko Haram parts as an exchange for their discharge yet the data service demanded that all alternatives were on the table.

The UK, the US, China and France are among those nations to have sent groups of masters and gear to help to spot the young ladies.

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Who are Boko Haram?

A screen-get assumed 12 May 2014, from a feature discharged by Nigerian Islamist radical gathering Boko Haram Boko Haram pioneer Abubakar Shekau has debilitated to treat the young ladies as slaves

 Founded in 2002

 Initially centered around contradicting Western instruction - Boko Haram signifies "Western training is taboo" in the Hausa dialect

 Launched military operations in 2009 to make Islamic state

 Thousands murdered, for the most part in north-eastern Nigeria - additionally struck police and UN central command in capital, Abuja

 Some three million individuals influenced

 Declared terrorist amass by US in 2013