Nigerian security forces rescue nearly 100 kidnap victims held in forest hideouts in the country's northwest.

A group of American missionaries and their families were kidnapped in Haiti.

The United Nations (UN) says Mozambique has rescued a number of children who had been abducted by the al-Shabab terrorist group to be forcefully recruited as child soldiers.

Unknown gunmen attack a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara and kidnap 73 students, just days after three other groups of hostages were freed when large ransom payments were reportedly made in the African country.

Israeli forces kidnap a number of Palestinians, including officials from Hamas, in a series of raids across the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations says it will raise the detention of Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai's ruler, with the United Arab Emirates.

Armed men abduct hundreds of students along with some of their teachers after attacking their school in central Nigeria.