Nigeriens call for American aid worker’s release, two years after his abduction
World Watch Monitor On the second anniversary of the disappearance of the American Christian aid worker Jeff Woodke from his home in Abalak, northern Niger, community leaders have called on Niger’s president to secure his release. Woodke, 57, who worked for Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement, was abducted by unknown assailants late in the evening of […]
Jeff Woodke’s wife releases third video plea for news of her husband
World Watch Monitor Jeff Woodke had served in Niger for more than 29 years, providing food, water and other services to nomadic people. PICTURE: Facebook/Blaise Gaitou. The wife of an American missionary abducted 20 months ago in Africa’s Sahel region has put out a new video pleading for his safe return. In the four minute […]
US hostage’s wife asks his African captors to contact her
World Watch Monitor The wife of a pioneering American missionary abducted nine months ago in Africa’s Sahel region has put out a video pleading for his safe return. In the 2 minute 26 second video released on Tuesday, Els Woodke expresses her despair and desire to be in touch with her husband’s kidnappers. Jeff Woodke, […]