Boarding schools in Nigeria’s Zamfara and Kano states were closed indefinitely on Friday, in order to protect vulnerable sites following the abduction of 317 girls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe. “As you know, the state government always takes proactive measures on issues related to security,” said the…
African billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who has been missing from Tanzania since an October 11 abduction, is now home and safe after his release over the weekend. “I thank Allah that I have returned home safely. I thank all my fellow Tanzanians, and everyone around the world for their prayers,” said a…
In Zimbabwe, it has been more than three years since human rights activist Itai Dzamara was abducted at gunpoint. The next year it was his brother, Patson, who went missing. The difference between the two is that Patson came back but Itai never has. Their stories are achingly familiar to…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said Sunday it is expanding efforts to locate more than 100 missing girls abducted from the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi last week. Spokesman Olatokunbo Adesanya said additional air assets including Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms and helicopters were deployed to Yobe…
Two Canadians and two Americans were abducted Tuesday in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, following a gun battle with their attackers that killed two police officers who were escorting their group. Details are still incomplete, but Nigerian authorities confirmed that the four North Americans – initially reported as two and then corrected…
The former prime minister of Libya, released after a week-long abduction and disappearance, is safe and in good health, according to information released Wednesday by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). The mission said that Ghassan Salame, the new UN special envoy to Libya, has spoken with Ali…
A Mumbai businessman abducted for ransom in Kinshasa has been freed after an ordeal of nearly three weeks. Ritesh Kishor Hemnani, 35, went missing from a golf course in the Gombe neighborhood of the Democratic Republic of Congo capital at about 9 a.m. on June 20. He was freed over…
A Roman Catholic priest who was abducted in Burundi in April has died, following an ordeal from which he never recovered. Adolphe Ntahondereye was the vicar of St. Francesco Saverio parish in Gatumba, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo. He was ambushed while traveling by bus on April…
As police in Swaziland unravel the mystery of what has happened to Portuguese businessman Almor Oliveiri, new details have emerged – and along with them, a concern for foreign investors. Oliveiri has been missing since April 16, and authorities don’t know where he is. Three people have been arrested in…
Church authorities have confirmed that a Colombian nun serving in Mali was kidnapped Tuesday night from a parish in Karangasso. The woman, a nun with the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, was taken around 9 p.m. after armed men broke into the parish and escaped in a…