Abductions
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Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear
In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government
Uganda’s return to the dark days of Idi Amin
Hundreds of opposition supporters have disappeared in the last few months, allegedly detained or abducted by Uganda’s security forces
Police mum on kidnap syndicate
As more businesspeople go missing, private investigators tell of a sophisticated global network.
UN outraged by abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls
The United Nations is demanding Boko Haram to immediately release the more than 200 girls, who are believed to still be within Nigeria’s borders.
Children abducted from Sri Lanka camps, says rights group
Children are being abducted from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged on Thursday.
Tsvangirai threatens to quit Zim unity talks
Zimbabwe MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday that his party will quit talks for a unity government if abductions of party members do not stop.
New modes of terror
Jason Moyo reports on how the Mugabe regime is using abduction as a means of political struggle.