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URGENT ¥¥¥ Nigerian Islamists claim to kill 7 foreign hostages: SITE

March 9, 2013 13:00
Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru on Saturday claimed to have killed seven foreign hostages abducted from a construction site last month in the country's restive north, SITE Intelligence Group said. "In the communique, the group stated that the attempts by the British and Nigerian governments to rescue the hostages, and their alleged arrest and killing of people, forced it to carry out the execution," SITE said.

Nigeria Islamist group says has executed 7 foreign hostages-SITE

March 9, 2013 11:30
DUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria-based Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said. The group issued a statement in Arabic and English accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said.

URGENT ¥¥¥ Every reason to think French hostages in Sahel 'are alive': France

March 4, 2013 18:46
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday said there was "every reason to believe" that French hostages being held in the Sahel region "are alive". Le Drian's remarks on French television came amid fears for the lives of French hostages in the area following the reported killing over the weekend of two Al-Qaeda-linked leaders in Mali. sm/mfp/vjf

February 21, 2013 14:01
French hostages seized in Cameroon probably held in two groups: Hollande swi-gd/mm/jmm

Reports that French hostages released "unfounded"-French ministry

February 21, 2013 09:01
PARIS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry denied on Thursday that seven French hostages captured in Cameroon had been released, saying media reports earlier in the day were unfounded. "After checking with our embassies, this information appears to be unfounded. The governments of the countries involved, mainly Nigeria and Cameroon, have also denied it," said Didier Le Bret, spokesman for the ministry's crisis unit. (Reporting By Vicky Buffery; Editing by Pravin Char)

French minister says cannot confirm Cameroon hostages freed

February 21, 2013 06:15
PARIS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - France's minister for veterans' affairs, who told parliament on Thursday that seven hostages abducted from Cameroon had been released, said minutes later there was no official confirmation that they had been freed. "There is not ... official confirmation at this stage," Kader Arif told a session of parliament. Minutes earlier, he had interrupted a session to announce that the hostages had been freed. (Reporting By Emile Picy; Writing by Alexandria Sage; Editing by Pravin Char)

February 21, 2013 05:15
French hostages seized in Cameroon freed: military source rek/yad/jz

France urges citizens to leave north Cameroon after kidnap

February 20, 2013 12:30
France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family -- a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle -- were snatched in northern Cameroon by six gunmen on three motorbikes on Tuesday and officials said they had been taken across the border into Nigeria.

France says 'will not yield to terrorists' over hostages

February 20, 2013 11:30
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that France would not give in to "terrorists" after the kidnapping of seven members of a French family in northern Cameroon. Seeming to exclude the possibility of paying a ransom, Fabius told the National Assembly: "We must do the maximum (to free the hostages) but nothing would be worse than yielding. We will not yield to terrorist groups."

'Hundreds held' in Syria tit-for-tat kidnappings

February 16, 2013 10:15
More than 300 people were abducted by armed groups in northwestern Syria over two days in an unprecedented string of sectarian kidnappings, a watchdog and residents said on Saturday. The spate of abductions, involving large numbers of women and children, began on Thursday when upwards of 40 civilians from the majority-Shiite villages of Fua and Kafraya were kidnapped by armed groups in Idlib province. Hours later, more than 70 people from Sunni villages and towns were seized in retaliation by gunmen from nearby Shiite villages.
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