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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nNigerian officials spoke with demonstraters during a march on the country's\u00A0Defense Ministry headquarters yesterday. Chief of Defense Staff\u00A0Alex Badeh\u00A0told the demonstrators that the schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram over a month ago have been located and that Nigerian troops \"could\" save them. Unfortunately, they aren't going to just yet. Badeh explained to the crowds, \"We can't go and kill our girls in the name of trying to get them back\" (via The New York Times). Because their kidnappers are holding the girls by force, a military intervention, he said, would lead to many being killed.Negotiations with Boko Haram for the schoolgirls' release reportedly\u00A0had been underway in recent weeks, to avoid the casualties Bedah predicted. A deal had even been agreed upon, swapping the schoolgirls for an undetermined number Boko Haram militants currently under arrest, the Times\u00A0also reports, but then Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan backed out.\u00A0Follow Alex on Twitter.Photo credit: Moussa Sow / AFP via Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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