France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family — a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle — were snatched in northern Cameroon by six gunmen on three motorbikes on Tuesday and officials said they had been taken across the border into Nigeria. Read Article
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Gunmen from Nigeria kidnapped a French family that included four children on Tuesday in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande said. They were apparently tourists, he said. The risk of attacks on French nationals and interests in Africa has risen since France sent forces into Mali last month to help […]
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As covered by dailytrust.com, “Gunmen yesterday kidnapped seven expatriate workers in Jama’are local government in Bauchi State. Reuters reports that the gunmen kidnapped the foreigners and killed a security guard when they stormed the Lebanese construction company Setraco yesterday. Those abducted were a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers, including two women, […]
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VICTIMS: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE FROM UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, GREECE, AND LEBANON Company: Setraco construction ft.com reported that gunmen in northeastern Nigeria kidnapped up to seven foreign workers from the UK, Italy, Greece and Lebanon during a raid on a construction company compound on Saturday night, police said. It is the biggest kidnapping of foreign nationals […]
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British man (pilot), Swiss national, four Swedes, and two French tourists among the dead. Telegraph.co.uk reported that the group are understood to have taken off from an airstrip in the heart of the delta bound for an exclusive safari lodge just moments before their Cessna plane crashed back to earth and burst into flames. Moremi […]
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As reported by dailystar.com, “Aid workers in flood-hit Mozambique said they were fighting to contain an outbreak of cholera Wednesday, which has sickened 282 people…The outbreak happened as disaster officials battle floods that have killed 109 people since the start of the rainy season in October and affected at least 240,000 more.” Read Article
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As reported by iol.co.za, “Zimbabwe police said Wednesday they had briefly detained seven “extremely rude” French tourists in the resort town of Victoria Falls. The group – aged between 55 and 66 – were detained for sneaking into a game park and refusing to stump up the $15 entry fee. ” Read Article
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As reported by theheraldng.com, “Blood thirsty robbers who attacked the residence of an expatriate at Apapa, Lagos State on Sunday night, have killed two soldiers and left one soldier critically injured. Reports say the success of the robbery was due to the fact that the robbers used another expatriate as a decoy to gain entrance […]
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According to cananusa.org, “A gang of hoodlums suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect has thrown Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe State into mourning with the killing of three North Korean expatriate doctors.” Read Article
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Polio workers in Nigeria shot dead… At least nine health workers gunned down in northern city of Kano amid increasing hostility towards polio immunisation drive. At least nine women who were vaccinating children against polio have been shot dead in northern Nigeria by gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist sect. Read Article
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