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Kidnappings by criminal gangs with no ideological affiliation and demanding ransoms have become an almost daily occurrence in northern Nigeria.

Armed men have shot dead a traditional ruler, and kidnapped his wife plus one other person in south-western Nigeria.

Armed men have shot dead a traditional ruler, and kidnapped his wife plus one other person in south-western Nigeria.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is temporarily shuttering an emergency clinic in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the medical charity said on Thursday, after armed men stopped an ambulance, forcibly removed a severely wounded patient, beat him and then shot him dead. Escalating violence from armed gangs in the Caribbean nation has forced many aid groups to cut operations due to lack of safety for staff and patients, as well as dwindling budgets due to underfunded campaigns. The limited reach of aid groups, including for victims of mass sexua...

International aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it was suspending work at a medical center in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street."MSF remains one of the last international organizations to provide health care in the Haitian capital and cannot accept that its ambulances are violently attacked and patients shot dead in the street," MSF head of mission Benoit Vasseur said in the news release.