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Children walk past classrooms at the LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga where students were kidnapped in Kuriga, Kaduna, Nigeria, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria's northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier in the West African nation's latest mass kidnap which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and slow security response. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Gunmen kidnap 15 children in yet another school abduction in northern Nigeria
By CHINEDU ASADU - Associated Press
Sat,03/09/24-12:04PM , 70 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed men broke into a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and seized 15 children as they slept, police told The Associated Press, about 48 hours after nearly 300 students were taken hostage in
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People gather around an area were gunmen kidnapped school children in Chikun, Nigeria, Thursday, March 7, 2024. Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria's northwest region Thursday morning and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week. (AP Photo)

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Gunmen abduct 287 students in the latest school attack in Nigeria’s northwest, headteacher says
By CHINEDU ASADU - Associated Press
Thu,03/07/24-1:28PM , 82 Reads
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a school in Nigeria’s northwest region Thursday and abducted at least 287 students, the headteacher told authorities, marking the second mass abduction in the West African nation in less than a week.
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Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry gives a public lecture at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday March. 1, 2024. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said Friday elections in his country need to be held as soon as possible in order to bring stability to the troubled Caribbean nation facing gang violence that threatens to overran government. Henry is in Kenya trying to salvage the deployment of a foreign armed force to Haiti to help combat gangs. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

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Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign
By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press
Wed,03/06/24-12:27PM , 50 Reads
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered the country's main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days.
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A ramshackle compound is seen in the desert area of Amalia, N.M., on Aug. 10, 2018. A U.S. judge is expected to hand down sentences Wednesday, March 6, 2024, for five defendants in a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that stemmed from the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia in late 2017 that ended months later with a raid on the squalid compound in northern New Mexico. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff, File)

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Judge sentences 4 defendants in US terrorism and kidnapping case to life in prison, appeals planned
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press
Tue,03/05/24-11:07PM , 67 Reads
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later found dead when authorities raided a squalid compound in northern New Mexico.
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