The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) faction of Boko Haram has freed five officials of a Borno State government ministry who were abducted while travelling between Maiduguri and Monguno last month. The five civil servants who work with the state ministry for reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement (RRR) had appeared in a video released by their abductors a fortnight ago, begging the state government to come to their rescue. Insurgents who had earlier threatened to attack staff of international and local non-governmental organisations for working for “the enemies of Islam.” had mistaken the civil servants...