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Somalia: Al Shabaab is due to display a movie from a French hostage
08.06.2010 - raxanreeb

Muqdisho (RBC) as confirmed sources close to Islamic groups, Al Shabaab will soon display video footages recorded from French adviser who has been taken as hostage July 14. 2009 by Al Sha Al Shabaab baab. The French adviser was one of two French hostages taken by the group July 14. 2009 at hotel Sahafi in Mogadishu, Somali capital ... mehr mit Video

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French hostage in Somalia asks help for release: SITE
09.06.2010 - AFP

DUBAI — A French security advisor kidnapped in Somalia 11 months ago appealed for help to secure his release, in a video posted on jihadist websites and picked up by the SITE monitoring group on Wednesday. "I ask the French people to do everything for my release," said the hostage, who appeared in the video dressed in orange, seated on the ground in front of four armed men, and reading from a text in French. He appeared to be reading the statement under duress. The authenticity of the video could not immediately be verified ... mehr

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Entführung in Somalia
15.10.2010 - Focus

Am Donnerstagabend wurde in Somalia ein britischer Mitarbeiter der Hilfsorganisation Save the Children und ein somalischer Helfer von Bewaffneten verschleppt [...] Bislang gebe es keine Hinweise auf den Verbleib der Mitarbeiter [...] Die Lage in Adado sei zuletzt sehr gespannt gewesen [...] Im Süden der Stadt hätten sich Kämpfer einer Miliz gesammelt, die offenbar versuchen wollten, Adado einzunehmen. In der Gegend sind auch noch mehrere andere bewaffnete Banden aktiv, darunter auch Piraten. Trotzdem galt das Gebiet bislang als sicherer als andere Teile Somalias ... mehr

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UK aid worker's joy at release from captors in Somalia
20.10.2010 - BBC

A British security consultant kidnapped six days ago by gunmen in Somalia has described his release as "marvellous", charity Save the Children says. Save the Children worker Frans Barnard, and a local colleague, who was later freed unharmed, were seized in the town of Adado last Thursday. The charity said Mr Barnard, who was born in Zimbabwe, was safe and well, and in the hands of clan elders, who organised his release ... mehr

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