Nigeria

Security forces continue to search for 317 girls who were abducted on Friday, just a day before an armed gang released 27 teenage boys who had been abducted from their school in the northern state of Niger last week. Schools have become the target of mass kidnappings of rapists in northern Nigeria by armed groups, many of whom carry weapons and bicycles. On February 17, gunmen killed a boy and kidnapped 42 people - 27 students, three employees and 12 members of their families - in an attack on the…

Armed men abducted 317 students on Friday and a rescue operation is underway, police in northwestern Nigeria said of the country's latest mass kidnapping. "The Zamfara State Police Command, in cooperation with the military, has launched a joint rescue operation to rescue the 317 students abducted by the armed bandits of the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Jangebe," police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement. "Unknown armed men came shooting sporadically and abducted the girls,"…

The young artist is exhibiting at the end of 2020 at the ADA Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana. His paintings, powerful and committed, seek to condemn the exaggeration of SARS's controversial strength in Nigeria, but also the fate of a persecuted society: that of people with albinism. From our correspondent in Accra,Eniwaye Oluwaseyi…

While leading researchers were busy understanding the extent of the threat from a new genetic mutation of coronavirus first announced by the UK on Saturday, which has since been found in cases linked to South Africa, a new variant of the virus appears to have emerged in Nigeria , said Africa's top public health representative on Thursday, adding that further investigation is needed. The discovery could increase the pandemic, as the first new strain led to the rapid return of international restrictions…

Bloody assaults are growing, both by jihadists affiliated with Boko Haram within the jap a part of the nation or by closely armed bandits within the west. The kidnapping of 344 highschool college students by these legal gangs earlier than their launch six days later emphasised the rapprochement between these networks and the deteriorating safety state of affairs in probably the most populous nation in…

The authorities and the principal of their school confirm that the 344 high school students in Kankara all returned healthy and sound, after negotiations with their prisoners. This kidnapping was claimed twice by the Boko Haram group, but was carried out by criminal groups in the region. We also know a little more thanks to the testimonies of the children who were reunited with their families on Friday…

In Nigeria, high school students who were caught last weekend at their boarding school in Kankara, northwestern Nigeria, were released on the evening of Thursday, December 17. This mass kidnapping was claimed twice by Abubakar Shekau, leader of a Boko Haram faction, first Tuesday, then Thursday, through a video showing dozens of children being shown by armed men. Some of them are now free, while the…

Nigeria decided on Wednesday, December 16, to partially resume its land borders with its neighbors. Four border posts are affected, on the side of Niger, Benin and Cameroon. The reopening will take place gradually and all trade will resume at all pedestrian crossings by 31 December, with the exception of certain products. The borders had been closed for almost a year and a half. The measure was…

Nigeria is partially reopening its land borders after virtually a yr and a half of closure. A choice that on the time was supposed to fight smuggling and encourage native Nigerian manufacturing. This reopening is a shocking resolution, because the announcement of the border closure in August 2019 had been introduced. The…

Nigeria opened key border posts with Cameroon, Benin and Niger on Wednesday. The Abuja authorities introduced this within the afternoon. Nigeria closed its borders in August 2019, formally to cease smuggling and encourage native manufacturing. as reported from Lagos, Liza FabbianIt was the International Minister who made this…