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September 25, 2019
BokoHaram aligned to the Islamic State group have executed one of six aid workersabducted in July in northeast Nigeria, charity group Action Against Hunger saidWednesday.
Thecharity said it was “extremely concerned and is fully mobilised to ensure thatthe remaining hostages can be quickly and safely reunited with their families”.
Thesix Nigerian aid workers — one woman and five men — were seized by jihadistsaffiliated to the Islamic State group during an ambush on their convoy close tothe border with Niger on July 18.
TheIslamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group released a video following theabduction of the female ACF staff member pleading for the release of thehostages with her five male colleagues behind her.
Thekidnapping was the latest to target aid workers in the conflict-hit regionafter the abduction and killing of two female staff for the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross last year.
ISWAPis a splinter faction of jihadist group Boko Haram that swore allegiance in2016 to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.