A Swiss woman has been kidnapped in Niger’s Agadez, authorities say

For the second time in two months, a foreign woman has been kidnapped in the city of Agadez in Niger.

Eva Gretzmacher had settled there 28 years ago where she had undertaken programmes in the fields of education, health, women's autonomy, ecology, culture and the arts

A Swiss woman has been kidnapped in Niger’s Agadez, authorities say

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

A Swiss associative worker was abducted from her home in Agadez on Sunday 13 April, according to the local authorities, three months after the kidnapping of an Austrian woman in that same city.

A Swiss national was abducted on Sunday night in northern Niger in Agadez, three months after the abduction of an Austrian woman in the same city, the Swiss authorities said on Monday 14 April...

The woman is said to have been abducted in her house in the city of Agadez, where she has been living for years, according to media reports.