At least 10 local aid workers have been kidnapped in
southwest Niger near the border with Burkina Faso, security sources and an
official from APIS, the non-governmental organisation for which they worked,
said on Thursday.
It was not clear who had carried out the kidnapping, which
took place as the aid workers distributed food in the village of Bossey Bangou
on Wednesday, said an APIS representative and a local security official.
Jihadist groups with links to Islamic State and al Qaeda
have been expanding their presence in the arid Sahel region of West Africa, and
attacks on civilians and armed forces have increased significantly over the
last two years.
APIS is an NGO based in Niger-based that has worked with the
U.N. World Food Programme during the coronavirus outbreak.
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