Three weeks have passed without news of two kidnapped civilians working for the joint United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur, a UNAMID ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Six aid groups have suspended operations in eastern Chad following the killing of one worker, the kidnapping of another and ...
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of two agency staff kidnapped in recent weeks in Sudan and neighbouring Chad. "We are asking for the immediate and unconditional release of ...
Red Cross chief calls for immediate, unconditional release of 2 workers kidnapped in Africa The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of two staff members kidnapped in the African countries of ...
Armed men have abducted a French Red Cross worker in eastern Chad near Sudan's Darfur region, prompting one charity to plan a reduction of its presence, official said Tuesday. Laurent Maurice, an agronomist who was in the area to evaluate the most ...
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that a French staff member had been abducted by several armed men in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan and its war-ravaged Darfur region. Laurent Maurice, an agronomist, was snatched at around 9:00 pm ...
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* Chad, Cameroon to fight to save lake at Copenhagen summit * Warn of threat to 30 million people, need for resources YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The presidents of Chad and Cameroon will use December's Copenhagen climate change summit to try to save ...
A 150,000-euro (225,000-dollar) ransom was paid to secure the release of two aid workers in Sudan's western Darfur region, the Irish Times newspaper reported on Saturday. Irish national Sharon Commins and Ugandan Hilda Kawuki, who worked for Irish charity GOAL, were freed ...
The United States on Sunday welcomed talks between Chad and Sudan, and expressed hope for normalized relations between the two African neighbors after months of fierce cross-border battles. The weekend talks were held between a delegation from Sudan which traveled to the ...
The toll in a cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria rose to 149 Friday with 52 more deaths, a provincial health official said. "We have recorded 52 deaths from cholera outbreak in four local government areas of the state while 1,335 have been ...
Senegal's foreign minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, stepped down Friday during the course of a government reshuffle, the ministry of information said. Gadio was replaced by lawyer Madicke Niang, who had been the justice minister, and who defended Chad's former president Hissene Habre, ...
