24 August 2026 · Dikwa
Kidnapping in Borno
OpenWatch has recorded 173 reported kidnapping incidents in Borno State, 62 of them in the last 12 months. That is 8% of every incident recorded in the state, and ranks it 20 of 37 among the states where kidnapping is reported often enough to profile.
Incidents · 12 mo
62
Fatalities · 12 mo
29
Incidents · all-time
173
Fatalities · all-time
370
Latest reported kidnapping in Borno
21 August 2026 · Kukawa
Troops rescue four Boko Haram captives in Kukawa
18 August 2026 · Gwoza
Troops rescue Cameroonian, arrest 3 ISWAP suspects in Borno
17 August 2026
Troops rescue woman, two children abducted in 2017 in Borno
11 August 2026
Troops rescue five from Mandara Mountains enclave
4 August 2026 · Askira/Uba
Suspected ISWAP fighters attacked Government Day Secondary School in Lassa, Askira/Uba LGA, Borno State on Monday, killing a teacher and abducting students and staff. As of Tuesday evening, 36 students (25 female, 11 male) remained unaccounted for despite a military rescue operation that recovered 10 victims near Daggu, during which one soldier and one CJTF member were killed.
3 August 2026 · Askira-Uba
Nigerian troops under Operation Hadin Kai rescued an 18-year-old woman in Borno State on 3 August 2026, months after she was abducted from the Dogoba Kopre axis in Askira-Uba LGA; she received medical attention and was reunited with her family.
1 August 2026 · Biu
Nigerian Army troops conducted coordinated operations nationwide in the last 24 hours, rescuing 34 kidnap victims including 31 from ISWAP/JAS terrorists along a Borno highway and a woman with two children in Kogi, while also apprehending a suspected ISWAP informant in Adamawa, engaging terrorists with rustled cattle in Zamfara, and arresting three suspected terrorists linked to a May 4 ambush in Imo with recovery of multiple weapons. A herder was found deceased following an attack in Plateau State.
31 July 2026 · Gwoza
Nigerian troops rescued a woman who had been abducted by Boko Haram since 2021 through the Gwoza corridor in Borno State, bringing the total number of persons rescued through that corridor to 117.
31 July 2026
Troops of Operation HADIN KAI foiled a terrorist abduction attempt in Borno State and rescued 31 civilians during a successful military operation. The intervention prevented the mass abduction of civilians by terrorist elements.
Other threats in Borno
About these figures
Counts cover incidents classified as kidnapping in Borno State, drawn from OpenWatch’s incident record, excluding retracted reports and duplicates merged into an earlier report. Figures update hourly. Last recorded: 24 August 2026.
Reported numbers are a floor, not a census. Incidents in remote areas are routinely under-reported, and classification follows how an event was described in reporting, so a low count is not a guarantee of safety. See the full Borno risk profile for every threat type, or the methodology for how incidents are collected and classified.
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