By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadYENAGOA, Nigeria( Reuters)-Nigerian authorities imposed a communications blackout on Monday in several parts of Sokoto state as a crackdown against armed kidnappers in the country’s northwest region spreads. Gangs of armed men seeking lucrative ransom payments, known locally as bandits, have spread across northwestern Nigeria over the past year, kidnapping more than 1, 000 students from schools and taking others from hospitals, homes and roads. Muhammad Bello, Sokoto st

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French police arrested two people on Wednesday suspected of having stolen jewellery worth up to €3 million in a Paris shop. The burglary at a Chaumet jewellery shop near the Champs-Elysées took place at around 17: 00 CET on Tuesday.... A man erupted into the shop with a handgun and departed on an electric scooter with a loot estimated at between €2 and €3 million.... No violence was used. CCTV images released after the burglary show the man, with greying hair, a grey suit and a face mask, leav

ABUJA( Reuters)-Intense fire from bandits caused a Nigerian attack jet to crash in northwestern Zamfara State, but the pilot survived by ejecting from the aircraft, the Nigerian air force said on Monday. Zamfara and neighbouring Kaduna are among the states worst-affected by a surge in criminality including mass abductions of schoolchildren and armed robberies, often carried out by large gangs of outlaws, locally known as bandits, who operate from remote hideouts. The air force said the crash occ

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KAMPALA( Reuters)-Uganda's military has killed 309 people in an eight-month-old operation against cattle rustling in a northeast region rich in minerals including gold, limestone and potentially oil, the armed forces said. The Uganda People's Defence Force( UPDF), the east African country's military, said the deaths resulted from a push to quell violence by cattle rustlers in Karamoja region since last July.... In a tweet on Wednesday President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, a comm

KADUNA, Nigeria( Reuters)-The Nigerian Air Force( NAF) on Sunday said it regretted a strike that killed dozens of civilians and injured others a year ago, accepting for the first time its responsibility for the incident investigated by Reuters. Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders died in the January 2023 aerial bombing in central Nasarawa state as they unloaded cattle retrieved from authorities in a neighbouring state, according to witnesses, local leaders and detailed complaints.In a rare acknowled

TEGINA, Nigeria( Reuters)-After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam's 11 children in northwestern Nigeria, he sold his car and a parcel of land and cleaned out his savings to raise a ransom to free them.... Around 300 of the children have still not been returned, according to a Reuters tally of reports.... President Muhammadu Buhari has told states not to pay anything to kidnappers, saying it will only encourage more abductions....

He will face Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and veteran politician who is the main opposition People's Democratic Party's( PDP) flagbearer. Abubakar previously ran on a commitment to privatise the state-owned oil firm and establish a fund to stimulate private infrastructure investment.... But the two candidates will have to contend with the image of geriatric men running a young nation. Nigeria's tech savvy youths accounted for half of the voters during the 2019 election and the number