Tag: "kidnapping"
100 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren released: UN source, presidency
World 10:21 08/12/2025Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said Sunday, though the fate of the 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remains unclear.
In Nigeria, anguish turns to anger for parents of kidnapped children
World 15:48 05/12/2025MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Two weeks after one of Nigeria's worst school kidnappings, parents of the more than 250 missing children are desperate for news and dismayed at what they see as the slow response from authorities.
More than 300 taken from Nigeria school in one of worst mass abductions
World 10:01 23/11/2025MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - More than 300 children and staff are thought to have been abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria this week, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded there.
