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Eugene

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2. An earlier VOA report describes him as a farmer.

Reply to secondwind (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 31, 2020, 09:30 AM

Oct 2020

US Citizen Kidnapped at Gunpoint in Southern Niger (VOA News)

Authorities in Niger say an American citizen has been kidnapped from his home at gunpoint and is being held for ransom.

Philip Walton was seized Tuesday at his farm in the rural village of Massalata in southern Niger near the border with Nigeria, said Ibrahim Abba Lele, a police official in the nearby town of Birni Konni.

https://www.voanews.com/africa/us-citizen-kidnapped-gunpoint-southern-niger

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Other reports have the U.S. denying that Walton is employed by the U.S. government or by organization with U.S. ties.

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Was he Peace Corps? A missionary? not many people go to live alone on the edge of a village secondwind Oct 2020 #1

An earlier VOA report describes him as a farmer. Eugene Oct 2020 #2