{"id":40782,"date":"2025-12-01T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/12\/01\/nigerias-wave-of-kidnappings-why-the-spike-in-attacks-across-the-north\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:01:42","slug":"nigerias-wave-of-kidnappings-why-the-spike-in-attacks-across-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/12\/01\/nigerias-wave-of-kidnappings-why-the-spike-in-attacks-across-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&rsquo;s wave of kidnappings: why the spike in attacks across the north?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Why is Nigeria in the throes of a kidnapping epidemic? Sometimes depicted as terrorists, other times as bandits, attackers targeting three schools inside of a week, leading some to compare with the 2014 Chibok attacks by the jihadists of Boko Haram. We\u2019ll do our comparison and revisit the same question as a decade ago, why would any human being abduct children, in some cases nursery school children?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Nigeria in the throes of a kidnapping epidemic? Sometimes depicted as terrorists, other times as bandits, attackers targeting three schools inside of a week, leading some to compare with the 2014 Chibok attacks by the jihadists of Boko Haram. We\u2019ll do our comparison and revisit the same question as a decade ago, why &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-40782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}