Kidnap

Police kill suspect during KZN kidnap‑for‑ransom sting involving Pakistani businessman

Durban – A suspected kidnapper was shot and killed during a shootout with police in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, on Saturday... Read more

11 May

Lagos – Gunmen ambushed a vehicle in central Nigeria with people travelling for a Muslim religious event and kidnapped... Read more

23 Dec, 2025

Bloemfontein – A 19-year-old Grade 11 learner from Marti Du Plessis School was kidnapped on Thursday morning by two... Read more

6 Jun, 2025

Kampala – Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is being held in a military jail after being “kidnapped” in... Read more

20 Nov, 2024

Cape Town – Police are seeking assistance to locate 41-year-old Rajathi Gnanaraj, who was kidnapped outside her workplace in Deal... Read more

5 Aug, 2024

Kano — Gunmen have kidnapped more than 280 pupils during a raid on a school in northwest Nigeria, a... Read more

8 Mar, 2024

Lagos – Gunmen attacked a train station in southern Nigeria, kidnapping around 30 people and wounding others, police and... Read more

10 Jan, 2023

Port Harcourt – Gunmen have killed three police escorts and abducted a local oil executive in southern Nigeria’s petroleum-producing... Read more

25 Nov, 2022

Ouagadougou – An 83-year-old American nun who was abducted by jihadists in northern Burkina Faso in April has been released,... Read more

1 Sep, 2022

Lagos – Nigerian gunmen have released four Catholic nuns abducted early this week in southeast Nigeria’s Imo state, police... Read more

24 Aug, 2022