Kidnapping
23 Jan
Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Television du Burkina (RTB) said on Friday
21 Nov 2022
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15 Nov 2022
This is one of the halls of Nigerian's National Theater, which is currently undergoing renovation.
15 Nov 2022
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10 Nov 2022
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3 Oct 2022
The head of Europe's largest nuclear power plant was kidnapped, Ukraine's nuclear power company said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces surrounded some 5,000 Russian soldiers in the key city of Lyman.
24 Jan 2022
A four-year-old girl missing for 18 days in a remote part of Western Australia has been found alive and well in a locked house, police have said. "They found little Cleo in one of the rooms," Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch from WA Police said in a statement.
17 Oct 2021
The liberation of the nun, captured on the border with Burkina Faso nearly five years ago, has been welcomed by the Colombian government. Mali's president saluted her "bravery" after the ordeal.
27 Sep 2021
Nigerian security forces have arrested three men accused of taking part in a mass abduction on Bethel Baptist High School in July. Gunmen kidnapped 121 students who were asleep in their dorm rooms. The attack took place just outside the city of Kaduna in the north-west of the country. One hundred teens have since managed to escape or were freed, but twenty-one are still unaccounted for.
15 May 2021
Zamfara state governor, Matawalle has secured the release of a kidnap victim without paying ransom.
4 May 2021
Earlier on, Students and parents of Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation protested at National assembly for the release of other abducted students now.
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25 Apr 2021
The Open Arms vessel was left at sea for 19 days after the Italian interior minister at the time did not allow it to dock at a Sicilian port. Matteo Salvini is accused of abuse of office and unlawful detention.