ACF Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/acf/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ACF Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/acf/ 32 32 French-based charity confirms abduction of six aid workers in Nigeria https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/french-based-charity-confirms-abduction-of-six-aid-workers-in-nigeria/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/07/french-based-charity-confirms-abduction-of-six-aid-workers-in-nigeria/ The Paris-based charity Action Against Hunger has called on militants to free its aid workers abducted in Nigeria last week. Footage of the victims released by the terror groups show a woman begging for her life. The organization that goes by its French acronym ACF confirmed that a Nigerian staff member, two health workers and […]

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]]> The Paris-based charity Action Against Hunger has called on militants to free its aid workers abducted in Nigeria last week.

Footage of the victims released by the terror groups show a woman begging for her life.

The organization that goes by its French acronym ACF confirmed that a Nigerian staff member, two health workers and two drivers were abducted in  Damasak in Borno state near Nigeria’s border with Niger last week. One driver died in the attack.

ACF says the workers had devoted their lived to helping feed people in a country where more than half of the 200 000 population live below the poverty line.

Boko Haram and a splinter group Islamic State West African Province operate in Borno state with government forces unable to curb them.

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