Europe 1 with AFP 9:50 p.m., October 29, 2022
A Franco-Australian national was kidnapped on Friday in Chad, near the border with Sudan.
The Chadian authorities have declared that they have mobilized all means to get their hands on the kidnappers.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hopes for its "rapid release" of the national.
A Franco-Australian national was kidnapped on Friday in Chad in a province in the east of the country, bordering Sudan, "by as yet unidentified individuals", the government announced in a press release on Saturday.
"This kidnapping took place yesterday, in the afternoon of October 28, 2022", indicated the Chadian authorities who declare that they have "mobilized all security and human means in order to get their hands on the kidnappers".
The ministry is working for "a quick release"
In Paris, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that it had "knowledge of the kidnapping of one of our compatriots in Chad" and was "in contact with his family, as with the Chadian authorities, in order to obtain his rapid release. ".
The Chadian authorities had previously indicated that the Franco-Australian was working in Oryx Park, located in the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim wildlife reserve which covers 77,950 km2.
This park is managed by Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF), a wildlife conservation NGO.
Sahara Conservation Fund was founded in 2004 to deal with the "catastrophic wave of extinction" which "threatens the fauna of large birds and mammals in Africa", can we read on the NGO's website.
Landlocked in the heart of the Sahel, Chad, with an area of approximately 1.3 million km2, borders Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic.
Eastern Chad, bordering Darfur in western Sudan, is a region plagued by organized crime and all kinds of trafficking.
Incursions by criminal groups into Chad and Sudan are recurrent and the area is regularly the scene of deadly violence, particularly between communities, on both sides of the border.