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Some of the kidnapped Nigerian school children are rescued

The Nigerian military has recovered 137 children who had been kidnapped from school two weeks ago by gunmen on motorcycles. The incident was an indication of the increasing fragility of the state in Nigeria. The World's host Marco Werman talks with Philip Obaji, Jr., a correspondent for The Daily Beast based in Nigeria, about the rescue.  ....

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Nigeria reels from mass kidnappings

In the state of Kaduna in Nigeria's northwest, gunmen stormed into a rural town and rounded up 287 children and kidnapped them to the forest nearby. The circumstances of this kidnapping are different from one four days ago when rebel Islamist militants kidnapped around 200 women and children elsewhere in Nigeria's rural north. The World's Marco Werman talks with Philip Obaji ....

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SPOTLIGHT: Kara House is here to tell investigative stories in audio formats

Kara House, an investigations-focused audio media organisation, is exploring new frontiers to tell non-fiction, fact-based stories. ....

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Insights from covering the Wagner Group in Africa

The death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash between Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia on Wednesday is but the latest twist in the recent history of the mercenary group, which made global headlines earlier this year during an armed rebellion in Russia. ....

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