11月21日，在尼日利亚西北部克瓦纳村，持枪分子从圣玛丽高中绑走了大约600名师生中将近一半的人，这是同一周内发生的第三起重大绑架事件。三天前，邻近的夸拉州一座教堂遭袭，造成2人遇害、38人被绑架；到12月8日，仅约100名儿童获释，另有165名人质下落不明，使这次事件在规模上超过了臭名昭著的2014年奇博克女生绑架案。
总统博拉·蒂努布正面临巨大的国际压力，其中包括唐纳德·特朗普在10月31日发出的美国可能进行军事干预的威胁，以及尼日利亚被列为“特别关注国”，这可能引发制裁和削减援助。尽管他在12月2日任命了新的国防部长并下令进行严打，分析人士仍认为政府无法有效控制约100万平方公里的大部分领土，暴力只是转移而非明显减少。
政府声称，自蒂努布于2023年上任以来，安全部队已击毙约13,500名“恐怖分子”，并逮捕了17,000名嫌疑人，而灯塔安全与情报公司估计，在截至10月的12个月里，即便整体暴力飙升，与冲突相关的绑架和死亡人数实际上略有下降。然而，国际特赦组织报告称，仅在他任期的前两年就有约10,000人被杀、更多人遭绑架，绑架勒索的犯罪土匪依然猖獗，这促使政府承诺增加联邦和州级警力，并与美国、法国、俄罗斯等盟友扩大安全合作伙伴关系。
In north-western Nigeria, gunmen abducted almost half of the roughly 600 students and staff at St Mary’s high school in Kwnа village on November 21st, making it the third major kidnapping in a single week. Three days earlier, two people were killed and 38 abducted in a church attack in neighbouring Kwara state, and by December 8th only about 100 children had been released while another 165 captives remained missing, in a kidnapping that surpassed the infamous 2014 Chibok abductions in scale.
President Bola Tinubu faces intense international pressure, including an October 31st threat by Donald Trump of possible U.S. military intervention and Nigeria’s designation as a “Country of Particular Concern,” which could trigger sanctions and aid cuts. Despite appointing a new defence minister on December 2nd and ordering crackdowns, analysts argue that the state still fails to control much of its roughly one million square kilometres of territory, with violence shifting rather than clearly declining.
The government claims that since Tinubu took office in 2023 security forces have killed about 13,500 “terrorists” and arrested 17,000 more, while Beacon Security and Intelligence estimates that in the 12 months to October conflict-related abductions and fatalities actually fell slightly even as overall violence spiked. Yet Amnesty International reports roughly 10,000 people killed and many more abducted in just the first two years of his term, as kidnapping-for-ransom by criminal bandits remains widespread, prompting pledges for more federal and state-level police and expanded security partnerships with the United States, France, Russia, and other allies.
Source: Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis
Subtitle: Donald Trump’s ire has drawn attention to appalling security failures
Dateline: 12月 11, 2025 06:00 上午 | Kwna and Lagos