Since anglophone separatists declared independence last October, dozens of people have gone missing
British schoolteacher David Bolam has been released by his Libyan captors, allegedly after a ransom was paid.
Twenty women have been kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen in northeast Nigeria, near Chibok.
Sars has obtained a preservation order against the assets of Radovan Krejcir, allowing it to look at his business empire and trace hidden assets.
A picture of the first state witness in the Krejcir trial has been entered as evidence despite the prosecutor’s objection.
Gender rights are being dealt a further blow by leaders’ inertia in rescuing the Nigerian teens from Boko Haram militants, writes Nikiwe Bikitsha.
Nigeria says it will not agree to suggestions by Boko Haram that the kidnapped schoolgirls will be released once the country frees militant prisoners.
US and Spanish scientists say they are ready to help reunite the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls with their families, free of charge.
Boko Haram has in a video claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls during a raid in Chibok, Nigeria, last month.
As rumours swirl about the missing Chibok pupils, soldiers say rescue plans are being leaked to rebels.
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to police.
Yolande Korkie, the wife of a South African man being held hostage by al-Qaeda in Yemen, has made a final video appeal for his release.
One of the men accused of kidnapping, assault and attempted murder with Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, says he was assaulted while in police custody.
The al-Qaeda militants who kidnapped Pierre Korkie in Yemen have made contact, wanting to know where the ransom money from the SA government is.
Two of the four people arrested in connection with the attempted murder of investigators in the Radovan Krejcir case have appeared in court.
Yolande Korkie has arrived back in South Africa after being held hostage in Yemen, while negotiations continue to get her husband Pierre released.
Militants linked to al-Qaeda have freed a South African woman kidnapped in Yemen, but mediators are still struggling to have her husband released.
Ariel Castro, who held three young women captive in his Cleveland house for up to 10 years, has agreed to plead guilty to escape a death sentence.
South Africa’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia is in Yemen to try and secure the release of two South Africans kidnapped in the town of Taiz.
In spite of attempts to gain the trust of Somali clan leaders, the release price has for a South African couple being held hostage has gone up.
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/ 26 November 2011
Gunmen in Timbuktu have kidnapped three men from South Africa, the Netherlands and Sweden and killed one German tourist after he refused to cooperate.
There are fears that Somali pirates are searching for easier pickings along the Kenyan coast as it becomes more difficult to hijack ships.
Doctors are being forced to abandon patients and flee Mexico’s most deadly city of Ciudad Juárez in response to extortion, kidnappings and murder.
Mexican drug gangs branching out into new criminal activity are earning a steady stream of cash from the mass kidnapping of migrants.
Mexico’s battle with its powerful drug cartels has seen almost 35 000 deaths, as well as the disappearances of an unknown number of others.
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/ 17 February 2011
When John Chase’s phone rings, he does not know whether he will be called to deal with a Somali pirate hijacking or commercial kidnapping.
Attackers kidnapped a South African sports journalist and two Nigerian colleagues on a bus in south-east Nigeria on Monday, their employer said.
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/ 1 December 2009
Kidnapping has become a lucrative business for al-Qaeda’s north African branch, experts said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 November 2009
Six aid agencies have suspended operations in Chad after the kidnapping of a Red Cross worker, the UN said on Friday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Gunmen kidnapped two Kenyans and two Somalis working for a printing company in an area of Mogadishu controlled by Islamist insurgents, witnesses said.
Efforts to free two women aid workers kidnapped by gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur almost a month ago are ”ongoing”, officials said on Tuesday.
Three German women from a party of nine kidnapped foreigners have been found dead in north Yemen, a government and a tribal source said on Monday.