A group of armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on November 24. (Photo: illustration). Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of Toumour in Diffa region near the border with Nigeria, said about 50 unidentified armed men seized the girls in a village about 9 km from the town centre….
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Cameroon refugees continue to arrive to Nigeria
“The principal and one teacher are still with the kidnappers. Let us keep praying,” said Samuel Fonki, a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon who negotiated to free 78 children, adding that one child had escaped independently. The freed children were unharmed although their clothes were dirty and they appeared exhausted, UPDATE 2-Kidnapped children…
Interpol searches for Tanzania abducted tycoon
Africa’s youngest billionaire, kidnapped a week ago (11/10/2018) off the street outside a luxury hotel in Tanzania, was transported in a car that had arrived from “a neighboring country”, police source said, leaving the public to guess which one it might be among Tanzania’s neighbors: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique….
Kidnapped in Nigeria travellers freed
Two American and two Canadian citizens have been freed after being kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, a police spokesman said, as it emerged that five oil workers had been abducted in the southern Niger Delta region (pictured). Kidnapped Americans and Canadians have been rescued in Nigeria, police say https://t.co/nJKVqJssvH pic.twitter.com/xD4zd2Y7IW — CNN…
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