-
Nigerian police hunt for 200 abducted children, rule out paying ransom to armed groups
Jun 01, 2021 12:05Police in Nigeria have launched a search operation to locate about 200 school children who were abducted by armed bandits on Sunday, but have ruled out paying a ransom to secure their freedom.
-
More than 100 missing, feared dead after Nigerian boat sinks
May 27, 2021 00:59More than 100 people were missing and feared dead after a boat with more than 165 passengers, including women and children, broke up and sank as it was travelling in Nigeria’s northern Kebbi state.
-
Niger wrestles with security nightmare as death toll rises
Mar 25, 2021 01:39Niger is grappling for ways to stem militant attacks that have claimed several hundred lives this year and risk inflaming tensions along ethnic lines.
-
Niger government says 137 killed in Sunday attacks
Mar 23, 2021 02:44Sunday's attacks by gunmen in villages in Niger's Tahoua region left 137 people dead, the government said Monday, in a massacre that has underscored the huge security challenges facing new President Mohamed Bazoum.
-
Gunmen abduct about 30 students in Nigeria
Mar 13, 2021 02:44About 30 students have been kidnapped by gunmen in a raid on a college in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.
-
Nigerian schoolgirls leave state capital to reunite with families after kidnapping
Mar 03, 2021 12:38Freed Nigerian schoolgirls leave the Zamfara State capital to be reunited with their families in their village. The girls, pupils at Government Secondary School in the remote village of Jangebe in northeastern Zamfara state, were abducted on Friday from their hostels by gunmen known locally as bandits, who released them early Tuesday.
-
Hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls released in Nigeria
Mar 02, 2021 05:20Almost 280 children who were kidnapped by heavily armed men from their boarding school in Nigeria late last week have been released, officials say.
-
Over 300 girls missing after gunmen raid dorm in Nigeria
Feb 26, 2021 10:45Heavily-armed gunmen have abducted hundreds of schoolchildren in northwestern Nigeria, the second such kidnapping over a span of a week amid a surge in armed militancy in the African country.
-
Gunmen kidnap hundreds of schoolboys in Nigeria
Feb 17, 2021 10:20Armed men have abducted hundreds of students along with some of their teachers after attacking their school in central Nigeria.
-
Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates off Nigeria return home
Feb 14, 2021 08:37Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats and were held in a forest during their three-week ordeal.