WHO doctor kidnapped in eastern Mali
UNIDENTIFIED assailants in eastern Mali have abducted a doctor working for the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N. agency said
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60 abducted Burkinabe women freed
THIAM NDIAGA SIXTY-SIX women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national
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Ransom demanded for abducted Nigerian children
HAMZA IBRAHIM DOZENS of children were abducted by gunmen from a farm in northern Katsina state and the kidnappers were
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Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics
ATTACKERS suspected to be members of Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two paramedics, plus a driver and
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Gunmen in Nigeria kidnap four Catholic nuns on highway
GUNMEN abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said,
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Two Catholic priests abducted in Nigeria, diocese says
TWO Nigerian Catholic priests have been abducted in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna, the local diocese said, nearly two weeks
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Nigeria rescues six abducted people
NIGERIAN security agents have rescued six people abducted by armed men from a university in Abuja this week, in what
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136, not 200 Nigerian students abducted
GUNMEN abducted 136 students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, a state official
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Tears, singing as abducted Nigerian students return
NEARLY two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were
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Ugandan opposition say 3 000 detained or abducted
ELIAS BIRYABAREMA UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party have revealed that around 3,000 of his supporters had been
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