Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Sexual and gender-based violence has surged dramatically in Haiti in recent years, with women and girls increasingly targeted by brutal practices, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Thursday. In a new report based on a decade of data and testimonies from its Pran Men’m clinic in…
At least 163 Christian worshippers were kidnapped after armed gangs stormed two churches in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, during Sunday services, according to local clergy and security officials. The attackers, described as carrying sophisticated weapons, blocked church entrances and forced congregants into the bush before abducting them, Reverend Joseph Hayab,…