Nigerian army hunts for kidnapped students, parents seek answers
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters Nigerian soldiers were on Monday hunting for armed kidnappers who seized nearly 300 school pupils in Kaduna state last week, a security source said, as distraught parents sought answers on when they would be reunited with their children. The source said the army’s Kaduna-based One Division was leading the operation and “will […]
“I forced her to go to school”, Nigerian mother cries after mass school abduction
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters Seven-year-old Safiya Kuriga complained she was feeling feverish but her mother still made her attend class on Thursday. Within two hours, gunmen entered her school and kidnapped Safiya and some 300 other students in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state. “I forced her to go to school that morning despite her complaining to me […]
Five Venezuelans freed out of 31 migrants kidnapped in Mexico
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security services have freed five Venezuelans kidnapped over the weekend by gunmen, local authorities said on Tuesday, as they searched for another 26 people snatched from a bus traveling to the border city of Matamoros. The bus was intercepted on Saturday on the Reynosa-Matamoros route in the northern state of Tamaulipas, […]
An abducted German priest is freed in Mali, a year after being seized in the country’s capital
Bamako, Mali AP A German priest who was abducted by al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali’s capital in November, 2022, has been released by his captors, a former colleague told The Associated Press on Monday. Church members in the capital of Bamako learned of the release of Rev Hans-Joachim Lohre late on Sunday, according to Dia Monique Pare, a […]
Over 30 people kidnapped by highway criminals in north Cameroon
Yaounde, CameroonReuters Over 30 people, likely including students from neighbouring Chad, have been kidnapped by suspected bandits in northern Cameroon, the mayor of the local town of Touboro said on Monday. The kidnapping took place on Sunday evening, mayor Celestin Yandal told Reuters. A Cameroonian security source confirmed the incident without giving details and said […]
Freed US nurse says Christian song was her rallying cry after she was kidnapped in Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti AP A US nurse who was released by kidnappers in Haiti last week says a Christian song called See a Victory became her battle cry after she and her young daughter were abducted. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were freed Wednesday, nearly two weeks after they were snatched at gunpoint from the campus of a Christian-run […]
US nurse, child safely released in Haiti two weeks after kidnapping
Reuters A US nurse and her child have been safely released after their kidnapping in Haiti two weeks ago, a faith-based humanitarian aid organisation where the nurse works said on Wednesday. View shows the “El Roi”, a Christian community site where the American nurse Alix Dorsainvil used to work before being kidnapped with her child, […]
Fifty migrants kidnapped from Mexican bus
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security forces are searching for about 50 migrants who were kidnapped from a commercial bus, authorities said Wednesday. The kidnapping took place in the central state of San Luis Potosi, the Attorney General’s Office there said. The bus, whose two drivers were also missing, was discovered further north in the border […]
Deadlier and more media savvy, separatist rebels evolve in Indonesia’s Papua
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Egianus Kogoya, the dreadlocked rebel behind the kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot this month in the highlands of Indonesia’s Papua region, is at the vanguard of an increasingly dangerous and media-savvy insurgency for independence. Separatist rebels kidnapped New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens, 37, after he landed his small plane in the […]
German aid worker freed after kidnapping four years ago in Niger, says employer
Dakar, SenegalReuters A 63-year-old German aid worker, Joerg Lange, has been freed more than four years after he was kidnapped in western Niger near the Malian border, his employer, humanitarian organisation Help, said in a statement on Saturday. Armed men on motorcycles kidnapped Lange in April, 2018, near the Nigerien town of Inates in borderlands […]