Niger: US aid worker Jeff Woodke faced ‘brutal’ treatment in captivity
...[some] 12 hours” they held him. Woodke had been living and working in the region since 1992 when he was abducted from his home in Abalak, northern Niger, in 2016....
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Niger: US aid worker Jeff Woodke released
..., a US official told The New York Times. He was then moved to Niger’s capital Niamey for medical checks. Niger’s Interior Minister Hamadou Adamou Soule told reporters that Woodke...
Afghanistan overtakes N Korea as most dangerous place to live as a Christian
...to jihadists there and across the Lake Chad Basin (Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and southern Niger) and in the Sahel – (Mali, Burkina Faso and western Niger). Five of these nine...
Her co-hostage freed a year before; nun meets Pope after Islamists let her leave Mali
...to which her captor replied, “You stay for later!”’ Italian priest Pier Luigi Maccalli, freed in Mali, worked in SW Niger till his kidnap in Sep 2018. He was freed...
Boko Haram ‘flies flag 2 hours from Abuja’ warned Governor, as Nigerian captive teen turns 18
...men from their homes across north-eastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and southern areas of Niger and Chad. Leah Sharibu, 14, was abducted by Boko Haram on 19 February 2018. (Photo from...
‘Bring back our 112 Chibok girls – now and alive!’ Demands for closure and disclosure 7 years on
...figures from Chibok echoed his plea “If Nigeria does not rescue our Chibok girls, there’ll be no peace in Nigeria. Boko Haram is increasing in many ways. No amount of...
COVID-19 exacerbates discrimination against minority Christians globally
...countries such as India and Turkey • Ten Nigerian Christians beheaded on Christmas Day, 2019, by Islamic State West Africa Province The global coronavirus pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated underlying...
Church surveillance, COVID-19 controls affect China’s Christians – 1 of 5 global trends
...splintered[3]. However, the leader of Nigeria-based Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, continues to build synergies between its factions, extremist Fulani militants and criminal gangs, exploiting failures of governance across northern Nigeria....
Who are the Fulani?
...majority resides in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, and Niger but they also can be found in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic and Egypt. They speak Fula languages as well...
Swiss woman, hostage almost 5 years, killed by Islamist extremists in Mali
Beatrice Stockli settled in Timbuktu in 2000 and was first kidnapped for 10 days in 2012 A Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockli – kidnapped from Timbuktu in northern Mali in January...