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Five aid workers, including an employee of theONG French Action Against Hunger (ACF) were kidnapped by suspected jihadists in northeast Nigeria, plagued by conflict against Boko Haram, said ACF.
“Our employee Ishaiku Yakubu (…) was abducted by armed men with four other employees of humanitarian organizations,” said theONG in a statement released Tuesday, calling for his “immediate release”.
The humanitarians, who were missing, appeared in a video, probably filmed on June 21, where they explain that they were kidnapped by fighters affiliated with the Islamic State group in West Africa (Iswap) at different times, in June.
This faction of the jihadist group of Boko Haram carried out regular raids against the employees ofONG local and international organizations and had already kidnapped six aid workers last year, including oneACF. Five of them had been executed and the employee ofACF is still in their hands.
More than 36,000 people have been killed since 2009 in violence in the region and more than two million people still cannot return to their homes.
The United Nations estimates that nearly 7 million people depend on humanitarian aid to survive in the Lake Chad region, a region on its knees after 10 years of conflict against jihadist groups.
