The former hostages were “taken to safety”said the NGO, without revealing the circumstances of their release.
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They are safe and sound. Five Chadian, Senegalese, Franco-Ivorian and Cameroonian employees of the organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), kidnapped a month ago in the far north of Cameroon by armed men, have been released in Nigeria, announced Thursday March 31 the NGO.
They were kidnapped on the night of February 24 to 25 in Fotokol, near the Nigerian border, a region where the jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) regularly attack civilians and soldiers. The ex-hostages were “taken to safety”specifies the NGO without revealing the circumstances of their release.
“There is nothing to link this act to the attacks of Boko Haram. We do not know if it was a simple theft that went wrong. A safe was opened”, a Cameroonian local government official said at the time of the abduction. The Cameroonian authorities indiscriminately call Boko Haram, the group originating in Nigeria, or its dissident branch of Iswap, which has pledged allegiance to IS.