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Mass School Abduction in Niger State, Nigeria 227 pupils and teachers were kidnapped from St. Mary’s School in Niger State. This follows the abduction of 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi State. The attacks exemplify ongoing security challenges in Nigeria. Details of the Niger State Incident The recent abduction involved 215 students and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution. Attackers stormed the premises early on Friday morning. The school is located near a major road and operates alongside a…

Students abducted, beaten and dumped 120km away — a fresh front in Zimbabwe’s political crackdown Two student activists from Chinhoyi University of Technology — Marlvin Saint Madanda and Lindon Zanga — were abducted in broad daylight during Students Representative Council (SRC) campaign activity and later found injured and incapacitated 120 kilometres away, in Shamva. The incident, condemned by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, has reopened raw questions about the targeting of youth activists, the politicisation of campus…

In Gabon, following a 48-hour ultimatum, authorities sent the army to stalls from street vendors in the capital. The goal is to get rid of all traders who sell illegally on the sidewalk. It is within the framework of a clean-up operation called "Free the sidewalks" that the soldiers acted on Sunday, June 20 from kl. 4. They started the operation at PK12 outside Libreville.…

Dozens of children were abducted by gunmen from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, in the latest mass kidnapping in Africa's most populous nation. About 200 children were at school in Niger on Sunday during the attack, the local government tweeted and added that "an unconfirmed number" were taken. The abduction came a day after 14 students from a university in northwestern Nigeria were released after 40 days in captivity, one of a series of kidnappings targeted at colleges and schools since December. Police…

Three Nigerian academics kidnapped in third kidnapping. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a government official said on Monday after the fifth school abduction in three months. It was the first attack on an elementary school in a wave of such attacks in which more than 700 people have been abducted since December, and it comes just four days after 39 students were abducted from the Federal College of Forestry…

WAJER, Kenya - The pinnacle of an administrator kidnapped by the use of suspected Al-Shabaab militants was came upon inside the Gumarey sub-site in Wajir badly damaged when police had been pressured to increase their search at the least to restore the torso, which is still missing.