At least 10 local aid workers have been kidnapped in southwest Niger republic near the border with Burkina Faso.
Security sources and an official from APIS, the non-governmental organisation for which they worked, said the incident happened in Boosey Bangou village on Wednesday.
APIS is an NGO based in Niger-based that has been working with the U.N. World Food Programme during the coronavirus outbreak.
The aid workers were abducted while they were distributing food items to the villagers.
It was not clear who had carried out the kidnapping.
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