Five abducted charity workers freed in Nigeria

DAKAR AP):

The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says that five of its employees have been released in Nigeria after being kidnapped last month in neighbouring Cameroon.

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.

The organisation said the workers were released Wednesday in Nigeria and have been “taken to a safe place”.

“We are happy to find our colleagues safe and sound,” said the director general of the organisation, Stephen Cornish. “We share the deep relief of their parents and loved ones, who were impatiently awaiting this news.”

The organisation did not give details on the condition of the release.