Cameroon: MSF announces the release of five employees kidnapped in February 2022
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This is the end of the concern for five employees of Doctors Without Borders kidnapped a month ago in the far north of Cameroon.
The NGO announces this Thursday, March 31, 2022 their release on Nigerian soil.
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The five employees of the NGO are all safe and sound.
Médecins sans Frontières says it shares the "
deep relief
" of their loved ones.
The organization does not wish to communicate more for the moment on the circumstances of these releases, but it undertakes to accompany these employees to help them best to recover.
They spent more than a month in captivity.
To this day, there is still no formal claim
for these abductions
.
It was at their home in Fotokol that the three expatriate employees, a Franco-Ivorian, a Senegalese and a Chadian, were kidnapped along with their two Cameroonian security guards.
It was on the night of February 24 to 25.
The house had been searched and a safe forced into.
Fotokol is a town in Logone-et-Chari, bordering Nigeria.
If we move away a little, it is a locality which is also on the road which leads to Ndjamena, the Chadian capital.
And more broadly, the sector is near the Lake Chad basin, an area where armed groups such as Iswap (the Islamic State group in West Africa) and Boko Haram are rampant.
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