Niger’s ousted President Bazoum attempts escape, junta captors claim
Niamey, NigerReuters Niger’s junta said on Thursday that it had thwarted an escape attempt by ousted President Mohamed Bazoum who has been imprisoned by the military since a 26th July coup despite international calls for his release. Demonstrators hold placards and Niger’s flags as they gather outside Niger’s embassy in support of the President of […]
Ukrainian orphans taste freedom after fleeing Russian occupation
Kyiv, UkraineReuters There it was, on a terrace behind a Kyiv cafe. A ping pong table. After nearly a year and a half locked away in hiding under Russian occupation, followed by a daring escape last month, Ilona Pavliuk, 16, could hardly believe it was OK to just stop and play. “People are so nice […]
In “miracle” escape from earthquake, Syrian woman rescues children and bag of memories
Jableh, Syria Reuters When she felt the first tremors of the earthquake which hit Syria and Turkey last week, Um Kanan woke her three children and rushed them to a small closet in her bedroom for shelter, along with a collection of family photos and documents. The force of the quake brought their fourth floor […]
Abducted Burkina women flee jihadist gunmen through bush
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Piercing thorns and stones underfoot did not stop the young woman as she charged through thickets, baby strapped to her back, fleeing armed militants who had kidnapped her with dozens of others in northern Burkina Faso last week. Now back home in the town of Arbinda along with a few who also […]
Escape from Mariupol: “I didn’t want to die on the road”
Reuters It took two days of searching under heavy shelling before twin sisters Hanna and Anastasiya Hrechkina from Mariupol managed to find a ride out of the city. “I lost any hope because people were not stopping,” said Anastasiya, a 22-year-old psychology student. Service members of pro-Russian troops check cars during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the […]
This Life: Need to find rest? Put Jesus on speed dial
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article published on ASSIST News Service, writes about finding rests through Christ…
Church agency: Captive missionaries made daring escape
Berlin, OhioAP Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to the agency they work for, officials said Monday. The group of 12 navigated by stars to reach safety […]
Essay: ‘Bride kidnapping’ haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young women to flee their homeland
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based researchers ERIN HOFMANN and GUANGQING CHI look at the problem of ‘bride kidnapping’ and its links with migration in Kyrgyzstan…
More than 1,800 break out of Nigerian prison: BBC
Reuters More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigeria prison after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The attackers used explosives to blast the administrative block of the prison in the south-eastern town of Owerri and enter the prison yard, the BBC said. Owerri […]