By Alex Crawford, Sky News Special Correspondent
It is 12 months since the kidnap of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls captured the world's attention - they remain unaccounted for and it is increasingly clear Boko Haram is still abducting hundreds more women.
Campaign group BringBackOurGirls says it has evidence some of the group were seen in the town of Gwoza in northeast Nigeria, until recently the main operational base of the militant terror group.
Nothing concrete has been heard of them since.
Even after the Nigerian military entered the town and claimed to have retaken it - a week before the country went to the polls - there has been little news of exactly what was found there.
Nigeria's new president told Sky News last month - in his first interview after it became clear he was going to be the country's next leader- that cracking down on Boko Haram and recovering the schoolgirls was his top priority.
But he warned parents not to be overly optimistic.
"We will do our best," President-elect Muhammadu Buhari told us from his Abuja residence.
A report by human rights group Amnesty International says at least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014.
Many of them are forced into sexual slavery - and also trained to fight.
One young woman who was kidnapped then forced into marriage told Amnesty she was repeatedly raped and sexually abused.
She said she had been taught how to use weapons and forced to take part in Boko Haram battles - even one against her own village.
Amnesty has documented what it calls multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the extremist group, which recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
It commissioned new satellite images, including that of the town of Bama, which showed the level of destruction wrought by Boko Haram as it retreated.
Nearly 6,000 structures can be seen damaged or destroyed - about 70% of the town.
There is more hope than at anytime over the last five years that with the election of a new president there will be fresh impetus and the will to take on the militants - and to try to find some answers for the hundreds of parents still hoping their daughters will be returned.
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