Cameroon: five MSF employees kidnapped in the Far North

According to the organization MSF, the identity and motives of the kidnappers are not yet known (illustration).

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Five aid workers were kidnapped on the night of February 24 to 25 in Fotokol in the Far North of Cameroon.

We do not know for the moment if it is a villainous act or a kidnapping signed Boko Haram. 

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With our correspondent in Ndjamena,

The aid workers were sleeping when they were surprised by the assailants who had already overpowered their two guards.

After having searched the house and opened a safe, the assailants took hostage a Chadian, a Senegalese and a Franco-Ivorian as well as the two Cameroonian guards. 

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," says their employer, Doctors Without Borders.

But everyone thinks of Boko Haram or the Islamic State organization in West Africa, two jihadist groups that operate around Lake Chad. 

Weakened by internal wars and pressure from the armies of the four states that share the shores of Lake Chad, the jihadists seemed to have lost operational capabilities.

But in recent weeks, they have started to make news again with attacks on military positions and on civilians. 

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