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Nigeria Rescues More Mass Kidnapping Victims but Struggles to Stop Violence

August 17, 2026 · 1 min read

Around 5:30 p.m. on February 3, Joel Adisa, a 27-year-old Christian resident of Kaiama, a town in Nigeria’s Kwara State, received reports over Facebook and WhatsApp warning area residents to avoid the road linking his hometown to the majority-Muslim village of Woro as armed men were attacking Woro. “I ran indoors and shut my doors,” Read more...

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