Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped 10 humanitarian aid workers who were distributing food in a village in southwestern Niger, according to a statement by the worker’s NGO.

Kadidiatou Harouna, of the Action and Impact Progress (APIS), gave an account of the incidence on Thursday, he said the men drove into the village in the Tillaberi region on Wednesday afternoon on a motorbike and ordered the victims to follow them.

She told the AFP news agency APIS, a partner of the UN World Food Programme, that had worked in the very tense region close to the borders with Burkina Faso and Mali “without problems” last year.

Both a German aid worker and an Italian priest were kidnapped in the region back in 2018.

Gunmen in the area have paraded several attacks on the community, and have stolen vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) who have worked in the region.

One of the MSF stolen vehicles was used May 2019 in a failed attack on a high-security prison close to the Niger capital, Niamey, where some fighters were imprisoned, according to government officials.

FULL NEWS: https://fojusi.com/10-aid-workers-in-niger-kidnapped-by-unknown-gunmen/

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OP be specific. Is it Niger State or Niger Republic..