Five aid workers kidnapped in Cameroon freed in neighbouring Nigeria
02 April 2022 |
8:53 am
Armed men kidnapped the MSF employees on Feb. 24 from the group's base in Cameroon's Far North region in Fotokol, which is near Nigeria and Chad. Those kidnapped and subsequently released include a Senegalese, Chadian and Franco-Ivorian along with their two Cameroon security guards.
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