On our TV screens, sport happens in a vacuum. But for John Mikel Obi and other African stars, real world problems intrude all too often
‘I realised I needed to keep quiet because, if I didn’t, I was going to die’
Mdluli has been on suspension since 2011 with full pay while on trial for intimidation, kidnapping, assault and murder in 1998
It was these 10 questions that helped determine almost a year after Mohamed was kidnapped in Syria that he is still alive, the family said
The Mohamed family has waited anxiously for news of Shiraaz’s whereabouts and health after he was kidnapped under mysterious circumstances
As more businesspeople go missing, private investigators tell of a sophisticated global network.
Dangerous myths persist about people living with albinism, but a community in Malawi has had enough.
Boko Haram has stepped up cross-border attacks into Cameroon in recent weeks, including a number of high-profile kidnappings.
The trial of Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir and five others accused of kidnapping has been postponed until next week.
President Goodluck Jonathan says the kidnapping of schoolgirls by Boko Haram will mark a turning point in the battle against "terror" in the country.
Following Boko Haram’s announcement that it’s holding kidnapped schoolgirls as "slaves", international pressure has mounted to find and free them.
Gift of the Givers has admitted it has lost all means of communication with the al-Qaeda kidnappers of SA hostage Pierre Korkie.
Police are ready to arrest and interview suspects over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in Portugal, says her parents’ spokesperson.
Czech businessperson Radovan Krejcir and his three co-accused’s bail application has been postponed to hear testimony from the investigating officer.
Who exactly is Radovan Krejcir accused of kidnapping and assaulting, and is this the best the police could come up with?
A police detective has been arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping that resulted in hip-hop star Khuli Chana’s shooting.
Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale.
Al-Qaeda militants are holding a South African couple abducted last month in Yemen’s central city of Taiz, a top security official has said.
Unidentified gunmen have seized two South African citizens in the Yemeni city of Taiz, an interior ministry source has said.
Preliminary DNA results have confirmed that the man accused of kidnapping and raping three US woman had fathered the girl rescued with them this week.
A kidnapped French family are likely to have been separated into two groups by their abductors, says France, as Nigerian forces search for them.
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/ 20 December 2011
Algerian troops have crossed into Mali to help government forces combat groups affiliated to al-Qaeda, officials and witnesses have said.
More than 300 suspected kidnappers have been arrested in Nigeria since February, the police chief said on Wednesday.
A five-year-old, who was kidnapped in Johannesburg on Sunday, has been reunited with his family, two radio stations reported on Tuesday.
Negotiations are continuing to secure the release of four SA peacekeepers who were abducted in Sudan, it was reported on Friday.
Four SA peacekeepers from the joint UN-AU mission who were kidnapped this week in Darfur are "in good health", the mission said on Friday.
The South African man being held hostage in Nigeria has still not been released, his father-in-law said on Monday.
M-Net on Tuesday confirmed that three of its staff members were taken hostage in Nigeria, and another was shot and wounded.
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/ 23 November 2009
Gunmen kidnapped two children on their way to school in Nigeria’s main oil city of Port Harcourt, police said on Monday.
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/ 28 October 2009
Kidnapping for ransom, popularised by armed militants in Nigeria’s southern troubled oil hub, is spreading across the vast West African country.
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/ 8 September 2009
It’s going to be difficult for Jaycee Dugard and her parents, who lost an 11-year-old girl and found a woman. They won’t know her.
The grandson of Mangosuthu Buthelezi was abducted last week, the IFP leader said in his online letter on Thursday.