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Nigerian community condemns kidnap incidence

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Nigerian community in The Gambia has condemned, unequivocally, the "shameful" act of the six Nigerian internet scammers who kidnapped a...

Nigerian National in Court for Attempting Kidnap

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

A Nigerian national was on Monday 12 January 2009 arraigned for allegedly attempting to kidnap one Yankuba Sawaneh. Chindrim David Awu, a resident of...

Somali kidnappers release two journalists

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80584§ionid=351020501

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph (R) and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon Somali abductors have released two foreign...

Kidnappers demand for ransom

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

In the ongoing kidnap case, Abdoullahi Wadani on Monday in his evidence in chief before the Honourable Master of the High Court Aminata Saho-Ceesay...

Bail for kidnappers

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Honourable Master of the High Court Aminata Saho Ceesay who is overseeing the Bundung Magistrates Court on behalf of Acting Principal Magistrate...

Nigerian in police net, Charged with attempt to commit felony

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Chindirin David Awu, a Nigerian national was on December 5th arrested and subsequently detained at the Banjul Police Station, for attempting to...

Journalists kidnapped in Somalia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7750433.stm

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

A British and Spanish journalist in Somalia have been kidnapped from the north-eastern Puntland region, local authorities say. Government officials...

SOMALIA: UN and local elders slam aid worker kidnap

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81323

Saturday, November 22, 2008

NAIROBI Thursday, November 06, 2008 (IRIN) - The UN has called for the immediate release of four aid workers and two pilots who were abducted on 5...

UGANDA: Charles Opira: "After eight years as a child soldier, all I want is to forget the past"

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Charles Opira was 10 years old when the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducted him as he walked to school in Gulu, northern Uganda, in 2000. He...

MSF asks Somali authorities for the safe and immediate release of our two staff members

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

"Our priority now is that our two colleagues are released without harm." After confirming that two staff members have...