Communities across the northwest are paying protection money to avoid being killed or abducted. Some are now forging local peace deals.
of 2022, 1,090 abductions were recorded. But Ismael didn't report his kidnapping and, as this is likely the case with many other rural victims, the data inevitably undercounts the true extent of the problem.
Abductions are not clinical crimes. The bandits are extremely violent, killing their captives when ransoms aren't paid. The kidnappings are not only an emotional burden on families; they also have a long-lasting economic impact on northwestern households - statistically, already among theWhen they got to their forest camp, Ismael's abductors demanded he phone his brother Mohammed in Nahuche to tell him the ransom was N1 million each, and gave him a week's deadline.
When they came to, nobody was in the clearing, just a dying Mohammed."He said he couldn't make it," Ismael told The New Humanitarian."He said he was going to die here, and we should just leave him."
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