ABUJA: The Nigerian government announced the release of more than 300 kidnapping victims on Wednesday, including 163 taken from a single village in the west of the country earlier this year. Kidnapping for ransom by criminal groups, militants and non-ideological gangs known as bandits has become a major crisis in Nigeria, especially areas with little state presence in the north and center of the country. In February, suspected militants attacked the village of Woro, Kwara state, near the border with Benin, killing more than 150 people and kidnapping an unknown number.

Des hommes armés ont fait irruption à moto, pendant la nuit de samedi à dimanche, dans le village de Kasuwar Daji, dans la zone de gouvernement local de Kaura Namoda, où ils ont…

Kidnappings have become a major source of income for armed groups in Nigeria, including jihadists in the northeast and criminal gangs known locally as "bandits."