All The Way Home From Jeff Woodke Surviving In The Hands Of Al Quida For 7 Years

Arroe Collins Like It's Live · Sep 17, 2026 · 10m · transcript

Jeff Woodke is an American humanitarian aid worker and missionary who spent decades serving vulnerable communities in Niger before he was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked extremists in 2016. Armed men stormed his home, killed two guards, and abducted him. He would spend the next six-and-a-half years in captivity - chained, isolated, moved through the desert, and left to wonder whether he would ever see his wife, children and grandchildren again.His release in 2023 made national headlines, but now Jeff is telling the full story of what happened in captivity - and what came after.In his forthcoming…