abduction
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The latest abduction highlights the risks faced by young people travelling across Nigeria to do their national youth service and has renewed calls for reforms.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
She joined the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office in 2007, eventually working in the domestic violence and child abduction units.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Malik Samuel at Good Governance Africa, a research and advocacy non-profit group, says that "there is no region in northern Nigeria currently that does not experience one form of mass abduction or the other".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Thor for thunderstorms, shrieking Sirens to explain shipwrecks, the abduction of Persephone the reason behind the bleakness of winter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
We didn’t know when the abduction would take place, but one thing we felt convinced about was that the woods would come into it.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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