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Source: Reuters – AlertNet
Date: 30 Nov 2009
Nov 30 (Reuters) – Three Spanish aid workers who disappeared in Mauritania on Sunday appear to have been kidnapped by a group linked to al Qaeda, Spain’s Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
Here are some details about foreigners held throughout Africa:
* CHAD:
November 2009 – Frenchman Laurent Maurice, an agronomist, was kidnapped on Nov. 9 near the border with Sudan, the International Committee for the Red Cross said. The ICRC suspended its activities in the region on Nov. 10.
* MALI:
November 2009 – Pierre Kamat, a Frenchman, was kidnapped on Nov. 25 after visiting the town of Tinderman, officials said.
* MAURITANIA:
November 2009 – Albert Vilalta, Alicia Gamez and Roque Pascual disappeared on Nov. 29 from a convoy run by a Barcelona-based humanitarian aid organisation to deliver computers and other equipment to poor communities.
Mauritanian security sources said an attack took place on the road between the capital Nouakchott and the coastal trading city of Nouadhibou.
* SOMALIA:
April 2008 – A Briton and a Kenyan working on a U.N.-funded project were seized by gunmen and taken to Jilib, 280 km (175 miles) south of Mogadishu. They are still being held.
July 2009 – Somali gunmen kidnapped two French security advisers working for the government from the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu on July 14. Police said one escaped on Aug. 26 after killing three of his captors, but Marc Aubriere denied killing anyone and said he slipped away while his guards slept.
* Piracy:
More ships were seized in November by pirates, now holding at least 13 vessels and more than 230 crew members hostage. Captives include a British couple whose yacht was hijacked off the Seychelles and the crew of a Spanish tuna boat.
* SUDAN:
August 2009 – Armed men seized two foreign civilians working for Darfur’s peacekeeping force on Aug. 29, the first time the joint U.N./African Union mission has been targeted by kidnappers. A Nigerian man and the Tanzanian woman were taken from their residence in the town of Zalingei in west Darfur.
October 2009 – French aid worker Gauthier Lefevre was captured in Darfur on Oct. 22. The 35-year-old is head of the ICRC’s office in el-Geneina, west Darfur, and his captors have demanded a $1 million ransom. Sudan has refused to pay. Sudan arrested three Sudanese in late November suspected of helping to kidnap Lefevre.
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