US missionary abducted in Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram militants have kidnapped eight girls in northern Nigeria, following last month's mass abduction, police say.

Gunmen in Nigeria kidnap ex-international footballer Samson Siasia's 72-year-old mother from the family home in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan cancels a meeting with parents of abducted Chibok schoolgirls, accusing activists of "playing politics".

Some of the schoolgirls abducted in April by Islamist militants are now free, Nigeria's military tells the BBC.

Will Nigeria's abducted schoolgirls ever be found?

Are Nigerian leaders doing enough to free abducted schoolgirls?

After a crisis meeting, Nigeria's government vows to do all it can to rescue some 190 girls abducted from their school last week.

Nigeria's government denies that militant Islamists abducted 500 children from a trading town in the north-east, saying the number is lower.

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Italian missionary sister beatified in Kenya
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Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Tanzania presided at the Mass of beatification, which took place at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri. The nation's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, was among the nearly 100,000 faithful who attended the Mass.
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