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All 279 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in northern Nigeria have been released and are on government premises, the local governor told AFP on Tuesday.
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Nigeria is working to secure the release of more than 40 people abducted from a school, including by sending an imam into a forest to meet with the kidnappers, a local official told AFP on Friday.
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Five Nigerian soldiers were killed by Islamic State-aligned jihadists and dozens of civilians were kidnapped in a separate attack, military sources said Sunday, in the latest violence to grip the north of the country.
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The Boko Haram jihadist group released a video claiming to show schoolboys seized in a mass kidnapping in northwest Nigeria last week.
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A 23-YEAR-OLD National University of Science and Technology (Nust) student was brutally murdered by three assailants who allegedly hired him on the pretext that they wanted him to ferry their goods to Roseburn near Solusi.
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The Zimbabwe Republic Police is in the process of engaging the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to assist in tracking down Miriam Bwanali, who allegedly kidnapped a child at Montagu Spar in Harare’s Avenues area…
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The woman who allegedly kidnapped a child at Montagu Spar in Harare’s Avenues area recently, is reportedly looking after two more children aged five years and two-and-a-half years, who now need DNA tests.
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Police are looking for a Harare woman who allegedly kidnapped a child at Montagu Spar in the Avenues area last week.
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Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin, freed in Mali on Thursday after a long kidnap ordeal, dedicated years of her life to running a charity for malnourished children in the conflict-ridden Sahel state.
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Thirteen men, including members of a right-wing militia, have been arrested for plotting to kidnap the Democratic governor of the US state of Michigan and start a "civil war," officials said Thursday.
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