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Dozens of displaced people have been abducted by suspected Boko Haram jihadists in north-east Nigeria's Borno State. BBC News, Juba
Officials say the victims were seized when they were collecting firewood in a forest.
It is not yet clear how many people are missing and exactly when they were taken. A US district court has charged a prominent South Sudanese
Some local media reports say more than 300 were abducted - most of them women and girls but this has not been independently confirmed. activist, Peter Biar Ajak, with conspiring to purchase and illegally export
The AFP news agency was told 47 women were still missing. weapons worth millions of dollars.
Over the last 15 years, Islamist insurgents have carried out frequent attacks and mass abductions in north-east Nigeria, displacing two million people. He was charged alongside his compatriot Abraham Chol Keech.
The incident comes after the Borno State government said almost all Boko Haram fighters were either dead or had surrendered to the authorities. They are accused of colluding to buy weapons such as automatic
rifles, grenade launchers, Stinger missile systems, hand grenades and other
export-controlled items from the US to South Sudan.
They have not commented on the allegations.
The sale of weapons to South Sudan is prohibited by two US laws.
South Sudan has also been subject to an arms embargo by the UN Security
Council that was initially imposed in 2018 and has been renewed several times since
then.
The court said that as part of the illegal scheme to smuggle the
weapons, the accused agreed to a $4m (£3.5m) contract worth of weapons and
related items.
They also requested a “fake contract” in the same amount for consulting
services and items such as communications equipment for use in refugee camps, a
statement by the US Justice Department said.
Mr Ajak, a Harvard fellow and a vocal critic of President Salva
Kiir’s government, was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to two years in prison.
He was pardoned by the president in January 2020.
South Sudan’s foreign affairs ministry has not yet commented on the arrest
of the two.
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