Nigeria’s president sends the country’s troops to rescue more than 250 kidnapped students.

The Foreign Ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemns the “kidnapping” of a Gaza infant girl by an Israeli officer, calling on the occupying regime to release the baby.

Gunmen attack a village in northwest Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, according to residents.

Nigerian security forces rescue nearly 100 kidnap victims held in forest hideouts in the country's northwest.

A group of American missionaries and their families were kidnapped in Haiti.

The United Nations (UN) says Mozambique has rescued a number of children who had been abducted by the al-Shabab terrorist group to be forcefully recruited as child soldiers.

Unknown gunmen attack a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara and kidnap 73 students, just days after three other groups of hostages were freed when large ransom payments were reportedly made in the African country.