By Sarah Simpson Lagos 05 March 2008 A foreign worker taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria's troubled oil-region has been released. The kidnapping was the first abduction of a foreign national for almost five months and raised fears that a period of re...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 19 October 2007 U.S. embassy officials say they have requested assistance from Chad's government in gaining to the release of an American humanitarian worker being held by rebels in the north. The rebels accuse him of spying fo...