FRENCH JOURNALIST KIDNAPPED IN SOMALIA RELEASED AFTER EIGHT DAYS
December 25th 2007 09:21
Somali gunmen released a French journalist they kidnapped eight days earlier in the northern Puntland region, a regional official said on Monday.
"The French journalist has just been released and is now staying with officials, local elders and some diplomats in the hotel," Puntland trade and industry minister Abdishamad Yusuf Abwan told Reuters.
Abdiaziz Said Mohamoud, Puntland police commissioner, told The Associated Press that,
"A kidnapped journalist was released this afternoon. He is now in Bossaso and is feeling well. No ransom was paid.
LeGouil had traveled to Bossasso to report on the human trafficking of African migrants from Bossasso to Saudi Arabia for the Franco-German TV network Arte Television.
- From MediaBlab
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