Nigeria's Stolen Girls: Inside Boko Haram Territory Where Children Are Forced to Become Suicide Bombers: Reporter's Notebook

 Women Held Captive by Boko Haram Share Their Stories of Survival: Part 1

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We’re speeding down the road in a heavily armored convoy, heading towards the front lines of the battle against African Jihad. This is Boko Haram territory. Outside, the temperature can crack 110 degrees F.

We’re traveling inside a thick bubble of security protecting Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She was there on a week-long diplomatic mission to Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria.

We've embedded with Power, known for having President Obama’s ear, as she meets heads of state, civic leaders and refugees. It seemed as though my producers, Katie Yu, carrying 30 pounds of camera equipment, and Clark Benton, I and want to get at two simple questions: What’s happened to the missing Chibok school girls? -- It’s been two years since their brazen mass kidnapping trigged the global hashtag #BringBackOurGirls -- And where are we in the battle against their kidnappers?

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Last year, Boko Haram pledged allegiance to ISIS – renaming themselves Islamic State West Africa -- stepping up slick propaganda and gruesome attacks.

In the years since First Lady Michelle Obama and countless celebrities and normal folk held up #BringBackOurGirls signs, the U.S. has deployed hundreds of special forces in advisory roles to the region. There's also a surveillance drone base in Cameroon sharing intelligence with the African military units. But American soldiers aren’t the ones going into the Sambisa forest hunting down Boko Haram encampments. It's the Nigerian military and a multi-national force winning a lot of territory against Boko Haram since they elected a new president last year.

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