FILE - This Monday, May 12, 2014, file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers interrogating... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This Monday, May 12, 2014, file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This Monday, May 12, 2014, file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist... (Associated Press) FILE - This Monday, May 12, 2014, file image taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. Soldiers interrogating... (Associated Press) 
 
 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the insurgents nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria's military said Thursday. 
 
 Nearly 300 girls writing science exams were kidnapped by Boko Haram from a government boarding school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, a mass abduction that shocked the world and brought Boko Haram international attention. Most of the girls remain in captivity. Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language, and the group's fighters have attacked many schools and killed hundreds of students. 
 
 In May, one Chibok girl escaped. In October, the government negotiated the release of 21 more. Another girl was freed in November in an army raid on an extremist camp in the Sambisa Forest. 
 
 Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman identified the latest girl to be freed as Rakiya Abubakar and said she has a 6-month-old baby. He said her identity — she's shown as Rakiya Gali on the official list of missing girls — was discovered when soldiers were interrogating some of more than 1,000 suspects detained in recent weeks of army raids on the Sambisa Forest. 
 
 The military released a photograph showing Abubakar with mournful eyes, her head covered by a white scarf, and clutching the baby wearing a white beanie cap. 
 
 Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima welcomed her at his official residence, where she was identified by two freed Chibok colleagues. Baby Abdullahi is shown in a video breaking into a big smile when he's chucked under the chin by one of the girls. Abubakar remains serious and morose. 
 
 "Hope springs eternal from the hearts of men," Shettima said. "We hope and pray that in the coming days and weeks we will get back a substantial number of our daughters" from Chibok. 
 
 A statement from Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said Abubakar's recovery "raises renewed hope that the other captured girls will one day be reunited with their families, friends and community." 
 
 Similar optimism was expressed by the Bring Back Our Girls movement — spawned by the failures of the government of Buhari's predecessor. The government of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan initially claimed the mass abduction never happened and was a plot to discredit his administration. 
 
 "We remain highly hopeful that the rest of our girls will be rescued and reunited with their families," the movement said in a statement, noting that Sunday will mark 1,000 days of captivity for the girls. 
 
 Nigeria's government announced that troops two weeks ago destroyed Boko Haram's last stronghold in the Sambisa Forest, and Buhari declared the extremist group was finally "crushed." 
 
 That raised questions about the whereabouts of the other Chibok girls, believed held in the forest. Some 196 remained missing before Thursday's discovery, though some of the freed girls have said that several in their group have died from things like malaria and snakebite. 
 
 Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau issued a video last week to contradict Buhari's assertion that "the terrorists are on the run, and no longer have a place to hide." Shekau declared that the war was just starting and urged his fighters to keep killing, bombing and abducting people. 
 
 Nigeria's government has been criticized over its treatment of the freed girls, who have been sequestered in Abuja, the capital, allegedly for trauma counseling and rehabilitation. 
 
 The freed girls insisted on being taken to Chibok for Christmas, but they were kept in the home of a local legislator and prevented from attending Christmas service at their EYN Church of the Brethren, supposedly for security reasons. They were not reunited with their parents until the day after Christmas. Chibok is a small Christian enclave following a branch of the U.S.-based Brethren in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria. Many parents of the girls are translating the Bible into local languages. 
 
 More than a dozen of the parents have died since their daughters were kidnapped, relatives say from stress-related illnesses. 
 
 Nigeria's government has said it continues to negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of all of the Chibok girls. But Chibok community leader Pogu Bitrus has told The Associated Press that more than 100 of the girls appear unwilling to leave their Boko Haram captors. He said the unwilling girls may have been radicalized or are ashamed to return home because they were forced to marry extremists and have babies. 
 
 In captivity, Boko Haram forced the girls to convert to Islam and "married" many of them to fighters. There have been unverified reports that some were carried across borders into Cameroon and Niger and Shekau had threatened to sell some of them into slavery. 
 
 Boko Haram's seven-year Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people, spread across Nigeria's borders, forced. 2.6 million from their homes and created a massive humanitarian crisis in which the U.N. says 5.1 million people face starvation in northeast Nigeria. 
 
 Hundreds of innocent victims have died in the hands of the military, Amnesty International has charged. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Bashir Adigun contributed to this report from Abuja, Nigeria. Faul reported from Lagos. 

 Story highlights She was found with a six-month-old baby during an operation to arrest terrorists 
 
 Several other kidnapped girls also have been recovered with babies 
 
 Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) The Nigerian army has located another missing Chibok girl during an operation to arrest suspected Boko Haram terrorists, it said Thursday. 
 
 According to a statement from the army, the girl was found with her six-month old baby and told soldiers that she had been kidnapped from the Chibok Secondary School in April 2014. 
 
 "She further stated that she was a student of Senior Secondary School Class 3B, before her abduction along with her colleagues on 14th April 2014 by the Boko Haram terrorists," the army statement said. 
 
 The Bring Back Our Girls group confirmed to CNN that the recovered captive is a Chibok girl. 
 
 It has been nearly 1,000 days since 276 girls and women, ages 16 to 18, were herded from bed in the middle of the night at a boarding school in Chibok by Boko Haram militants. The kidnapping spurred global outrage. 

 Image copyright AP Image caption Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in 2014 
 
 The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby. 
 
 She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. 
 
 Nigeria's military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks. 
 
 A total of 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in April 2014. About 200 of them are still in captivity. 
 
 More than 20 were released in October in a deal brokered by the International Red Cross. Others have escaped or been rescued. 
 
 Over Christmas, 21 of the young women freed under the October deal returned home for the first time. 
 
 However, family members told the BBC that they were kept in a politician's house and barred from going to their family homes. 
 
 Image caption Some of the 21 girls released in October, pictured shortly after their release 
 
 A statement from the office of state governor Kashim Shettima acknowledged that "armed soldiers... escorted the 21 girls to Chibok and remain their strict guards throughout Christmas". 
 
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 Prior to this, the girls had reportedly been held in a secret location for debriefing by the Nigerian government. 
 
 Two weeks ago, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari said the army had driven Boko Haram's militants from the last camp in their Sambisa forest stronghold in north-eastern Nigeria. 
 
 "The terrorists are on the run and no longer have a place to hide," Mr Buhari said in a statement. 
 
 Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced over two million during its seven-year battle to create an Islamic caliphate in the north-east of the country.
– The Nigerian army and Bring Back Our Girls say another missing Chibok girl has been found, CNN reports. According to the AP, the girl—identified as Rakiya Abubakar—and her 6-month-old baby were found while the army interrogated some of the thousands of suspected Boko Haram terrorists arrested in recent weeks. The army says Abubakar, who appeared "serious and morose" Thursday, will be released to the state government following medical exams. Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden," kidnapped 276 girls and women between the ages of 16 and 18 from Chibok Secondary School in 2014; 195 are still missing. The BBC reports 21 Chibok girls returned home over Christmas after being released by Boko Haram during negotiations in October. While in captivity, Boko Haram forced the Chibok girls to convert to Islam and marry its fighters. While some of the girls have died from disease, and there are rumors of some being sold into slavery, authorities hope Abubakar's return is a sign more of the girls will soon be found.