Amina Ali

{{Short description|Nigerian hostage}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use Nigerian English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Amina Ali | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_name = Amina Ali Nkeki | alias = | birth_place = Nigeria | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | body_discovered = | education = | occupation = | spouse = | partner = | known_for = Abducted during the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping }} '''Amina Ali Nkeki''' is a Nigerian former hostage of Boko Haram.<ref name=bbcwhois>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36330379 |title=Rescued Chibok girl: Who is Amina Ali Nkeki? |website=BBC News |date=2016-05-19 |access-date=2016-11-06}}</ref> She was one of 276 female students the group kidnapped from Chibok in 2014. After 57 of the girls escaped in the first few months, the remaining 219 were held for several years. Of this larger group, Ali was the first freed.<ref name=abc>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-18/nigerian-girl-abducted-by-boko-haram-found-reports/7426928 |title=Boko Haram: Nigerian schoolgirl Amina Ali abducted by extremists in Chibok found, officials say |work=ABC News |date=19 May 2016 |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/chibok-girl-rescue-raises-hopes-others-held-boko-haram/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Amina Ali rescued Chibok girl raises hopes for others held by Boko Haram |date=18 May 2016 |access-date=6 November 2016|newspaper=Vanguard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/one-of-abducted-chibok-girls-released-from-boko-haram---reports/ |title=Chibok girls: first missing Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram found alive, campaigners say |author=Aislinn Laing |publisher=The Telegraph |date=18 May 2016 |access-date=6 November 2016}}</ref> She was found on 17 May 2016 by Civilian Joint Task Force along with a four-month-old child and an alleged Boko Haram member, Mohammed Hayatu, who described himself as her husband. All three were severely malnourished.<ref name=abc /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/parents-raise-hopes-as-chibok-escapee-says-other-girls-alive-cpw7rpv3m |title=Parents raise hopes as Chibok escapee says other girls alive |last=Lamb |first=Christina |date=2016-05-22 |website=The Times |location=U.K. |access-date=2016-05-23}}</ref>

== Aftermath of kidnapping == Ali was taken to the house of the leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Chibok, Aboku Gaji. After he recognised her, the group then reunited her with her parents.<ref name="bbc36321249">{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36321249 |title=Chibok girls: 'First kidnapped girl found' in Nigeria |work=BBC News |date=18 May 2016 |access-date=2016-05-18}}</ref> Ali also stated that 6 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls had died.<ref name="6girls">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36338989 |title=Boko Haram abductees freed in Nigeria |date=20 May 2016 |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 November 2016 }}</ref>

She met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on 19 May.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36328583 |title=Chibok girls: Amina Ali Nkeki meets President Buhari |work=BBC News |date=19 May 2016 |access-date=2016-05-19}}</ref> In June 2016, the Bring Back Our Girls group as well as Ali's parents started demanding to know her whereabouts as they had not seen her since her meeting with Buhari.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.naij.com/870660-shocker-rescued-chibok-girl-last-seen-president-buhari-family-cries.html |title=Family of rescued Chibok girl demands her whereabouts |author=Jasmine Buari |website=BBC News |date=2016-06-24 |access-date=2016-11-06}}</ref> It was later discovered that she and her baby were being held in a government facility where they were to be deradicalised. In her interview with Reuters in August 2016, she stated that she was not comfortable with the way she was being kept from her husband Hayatu and that she still thought about him.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/chibok-girl-amina-ali-boko-haram-nigeria-freed-misses-her-husband-a7195951.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817200420/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/chibok-girl-amina-ali-boko-haram-nigeria-freed-misses-her-husband-a7195951.html |archive-date=2016-08-17 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Freed Chibok girl says she still misses her Boko Haram 'husband' |author=Adam Withnall |website=The Independent |date=2016-08-17 |access-date=2016-11-06}}</ref> She also stated that she just wanted to go home.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pulse.ng/local/amina-ali-nkeki-i-just-want-to-go-home-says-first-chibok-girl-rescued-from-boko-haram-id5388184.html |title="I just want to go home", says first Chibok girl rescued from Boko Haram |author=Adam Withnall |website=Pulse News Agency |date=2016-08-17 |access-date=2016-11-06 |archive-date=6 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106124808/http://pulse.ng/local/amina-ali-nkeki-i-just-want-to-go-home-says-first-chibok-girl-rescued-from-boko-haram-id5388184.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> While 21 Chibok schoolgirls who were formerly held by Boko Haram were allowed to visit their families in 2016 for Christmas, Ali and another girl, Maryam Ali Maiyanga were not, due to being reportedly deemed psychologically unfit to return home.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/21-chibok-girls-excited-to-visit-home-2-years-after-ordeal/177479.html |title=21 Chibok girls excited to visit home 2 years after ordeal |author=Kabiru R. Anwar |newspaper=Daily Trust|date=2016-12-24 |access-date=2016-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231170627/http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/21-chibok-girls-excited-to-visit-home-2-years-after-ordeal/177479.html |archive-date=2016-12-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2017, Ali was studying at the American University of Nigeria, with the aim of becoming an accountant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/23/chibok-schoolgirl-describes-being-held-boko-haram-terrorists-two-years/952628001/|title='That I am alive today is a miracle': Nigerian schoolgirl describes capture by Boko Haram|last=Ali Abare Abubakar|first=John Dyer|date=23 July 2017|website=USA Today|access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref>

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