Daily Digest Online

In a horrific act of violence, a 15-year-old girl named Endurance Sabon has had her hand cut off after her family refused a forced marriage proposal from suspected Fulani herdsmen in Kaduna State. The attack has sent shockwaves through the Goska community in Kafanchan and highlights the severe threats facing rural families. The ordeal began on Friday, December 12, while Endurance, her mother, and other relatives were working on their farm. According to a family member who spoke to SaharaReporters, a group of herdsmen approached them around 10 a.m., praising the teenager's beauty and demanding she be given to one of them in marriage. Thinking the men were joking, the family continued their work. The situation turned deadly serious hours later. As the family waited for a motorcycle taxi to take them home around 6:30 p.m., the men, who had been lying in ambush, rushed them from the bush. In the chaos, the attackers used a torchlight to identify Endurance, seize...