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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko Haram releases 27 hostages |
| 2014-10-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... 's government announced Saturday that 27 hostages presumed to have been kidnapped by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , including 10 Chinese construction workers and the wife of a vice prime minister, had been freed. The hostages were returned early Saturday morning and "are safe and sound," according to a statement from President Paul Biya's office read on state radio. The Chinese road construction workers were kidnapped in May from their base in Waza, in Cameroon's Far North region. Francoise Agnes, wife of Vice Prime MInister Amadou Ali, was among a group of 17 people kidnapped in a July attack targeting their residence in the border town of Kolofata. Officials said at the time that 200 fighters stormed the residence, though Ali himself was away. As the fighters retreated with their hostages, they set fire to the residence, stole safes and vehicles and killed at least five people, a military front man said at the time. A local religious leader was also kidnapped in the July attack and released Saturday, according to the Cameroon government statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |