{"id":5201,"date":"2025-08-25T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:29:45","slug":"dezenas-de-refens-resgatados-em-estado-africano-endozens-of-hostages-rescued-in-african-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2025\/08\/25\/dezenas-de-refens-resgatados-em-estado-africano-endozens-of-hostages-rescued-in-african-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of hostages rescued in African state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68ac28db20302752ba1bbfe7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68ac28db20302752ba1bbfe7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: RT Press<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian authorities have said the victims were abducted in a deadly mosque attack in Katsina State last week<\/p>\n<p>  At least 76 kidnapping victims, including women and children, have been rescued by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) after a precision air strike on the hideout of a notorious bandit in northwest Katsina State, authorities in Africa\u2019s most populous country have reported.<br \/>\n  The strikes on Saturday at Pauwa Hill in Kankara Local Government Area targeted a gang leader known as Babaro, who had carried out a deadly attack on a mosque in the town of Malumfashi last week, the Katsina State Internal Security Ministry said in a statement.<br \/>\n  According to the ministry, the rescued victims included all those abducted during the mosque attack, which left at least 50 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it was regrettably noted that one child tragically lost his life during the ordeal,\u201d it announced.<\/p>\n<p>The West African country has long grappled with kidnappings carried out by criminal gangs and terrorist groups, particularly in the northwest and north-central regions. Such attacks have surged in recent months, defying government security measures that include routine army bombing raids against terror groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/africa\/623492-dozens-hostages-rescued-nigeria\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: RT Press \u201cNigerian authorities have said the victims were abducted in a deadly mosque attack in Katsina State last week At least 76 kidnapping victims, including women and children, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2025\/08\/25\/dezenas-de-refens-resgatados-em-estado-africano-endozens-of-hostages-rescued-in-african-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dozens of hostages rescued in African state<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}