An Italian priest
working in Niger has been kidnapped in Niger, probably by
Islamist extremists, a fellow clergyman told the Fides agency on
Tuesday.
"On the night between Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 September,
Father Pierluigi Maccalli of the Society of African Missions
(SMA) was kidnapped by suspected jihadists active in the area,"
Father Mauro Armanino, a missionary in Niamey, Niger, told
Fides.
"The area has been in a state of emergency for several months
die to the presence of terrorists from Mali and Burkina Faso".
Maccalli, who was originally from the diocesis of the
northern Italian town of Crema and had previous worked as a
missionary in Ivory Coast, was in the parish of Bomoanga, in the
Niamey diocesis.
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