At least 100 people, including students, were kidnapped for ransom last week in Ethiopia’s restive regions that have seen sporadic fighting since the end of the civil war in Tigray, the U.S. ambassador to Addis Ababa said on Monday. “Recent and frequent kidnappings in Oromia and Amhara regions show how …
Read More »Nigeria: at least 100 people kidnapped by armed men during weekend attacks
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped around 100 people, including women and children, in two weekend attacks in Kaduna state, residents and police said on Monday. Kidnappings by criminal gangs demanding ransoms have become an almost daily occurrence in Nigeria, especially in the north, with authorities seemingly powerless to stop them. Kaduna …
Read More »At least three killed and several kidnapped in northwest Nigeria
At least 50 people, including women and children, were kidnapped and three others killed in an attack by gunmen in Bagega, a mining village in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, local media reported Tuesday, citing residents. Kidnapping for ransom has become commonplace in northwestern Nigeria in recent years where armed gangs, …
Read More »Fake kidnapping went wrong in Zambia
Zambian police arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of faking her own kidnapping as she told her uncle she was abducted by unidentified men on her way to church, local media reported. Zambia police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga says the woman left home under the pretext that she was going to church, …
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