Niger: no news of aid workers kidnapped

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The nine aid workers kidnapped on June 24 at the border between Burkina Faso and Mali are still missing. Last Wednesday, the local Nigerien authorities as well as the NGO for which they worked had however announced their release. Since no news. They are ultimately still missing.

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On June 24, the Nigerian NGO Action and Impact Program in the Sahel is on a mission to target vulnerable people in the middle of the lean season. At least eleven aid workers are on the ground, in Bossey Bangou, in a hamlet in the commune of Makalondi in Niger, before disappearing . Quickly, their officials accuse the jihadists present in the area of ​​being responsible for the abduction. It is the first kidnapping of humanitarian workers in this region at the heart of the three borders.

If a week later, on July 1, the governor of Tilabéri and the NGO and WFP, partner of APIS, announced their release, since no one has seen these humanitarian workers missing. "  Are they lost? Are they still detained? The search continues, but there are many elements kept secret,  "said a humanitarian official. A local authority confirms that they ultimately did not reappear and that he says they are still in captivity.

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