Tag: hostages
No more hostages held by Somali pirates
Over the past five years Somali pirates took more than 3Â 600 people hostage in attacks on ships varying in size from tankers through to...
Five killed in attack on South African church, hostages freed
Five people were killed in an attack on a church west of Johannesburg in the early hours of Saturday, South African police said, with...
Sahel hostages released
A Canadian woman and an Italian man kidnapped while travelling through Burkina Faso 15 months ago have been freed and are in good health,...
Mali hostage video released by Islamists
An al Qaeda affiliate in Mali released a video of a French aid worker and a Colombian nun kidnapped in separate incidents...
British hostages released in DR Congo
Two Britons held hostage in Democratic Republic of Congo were released, Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson said.
They were kidnapped on Friday while...
Boko Haram hostages handed to Nigerian government
Boko Haram freed 13 hostages after authorities negotiated their release with the Islamist militants.
The kidnappings were part of a campaign of...
Americans and Canadians released after kidnapping
Two Americans and two Canadians were freed after being kidnapped in the Nigerian state of Kaduna, a police spokesman said, as it...
Hostages rescued in Nigeria
Nigeria's military rescued all members of an oil survey team kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants, it said in a statement, after...
Hostages held in Central African Republic mosque freed
About 1,000 people held hostage since the weekend by armed militias in a mosque amid violent clashes in south-eastern Central African Republic...
Man claiming to be Boko Haram leader denies 5,000 hostages freed
A man purporting to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram denied in a video posted on Friday that...
Cameroon hostages freed in CAR
Eleven hostages from Cameroon were freed on Sunday following 16 months of captivity, after having been abducted by a militia group from...
Freed Italian hostages flown home from Libya
Two Italian hostages freed in Libya after two fellow captives were allegedly killed by Islamic State militants were flown back to Italy...
Two Italian hostages freed in Libya
Two Italian civilians held hostage in Libya since last July have been freed, a source close to the matter said on Friday,...
Six hostages killed in CAR by rival groups
Three hostages seized in Central African Republic this week were killed and three more seized later by another group were killed as...
ISS: Mali hostage drama a moral catch-22
A video featuring Stephen McGown, a South African hostage in Mali, was released on YouTube last week and is spine chilling in...
Mali hostages, held since late 2011, plead for release in video
Two hostages kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in north Mali more than three years ago asked their governments to help secure their...
Islamic State releases Bangladeshi hostages in Libya oilfield attack
Two Bangladeshi citizens, among a group of foreign workers taken hostage by the Islamic State militant group in an attack on a...
Central African Republic rebels free eight kidnapped officials
Rebels in Central African Republic on Monday freed eight local officials who were kidnapped at the weekend, but they warned authorities from...
South African hostage in Yemen killed in US rescue attempt
Two hostages, including South African Pierre Korkie, were killed during a rescue attempt by American forces in Yemen on Saturday.
US special forces...
Sixteen hostages freed in Cameroon
The Cameroonian army has freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who were abducted by rebels from Central African Republic...
Cameroon army frees 16 hostages, including Polish priest
A Cameroonian army operation has freed 16 hostages, including Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic, who was abducted by rebels from Central African...
Yemeni forces free eight al Qaeda hostages
Yemeni security forces freed eight hostages including six Yemenis, a Saudi and an Ethiopian, in a raid in which seven al Qaeda...
Cameroon frees 18 hostages seized by C.African Republic rebels
Cameroon's army has freed 18 civilians seized in the country's east last week by rebels from neighbouring Central African Republic, state television...
Sahara Islamists release video of Algerian diplomat hostage
Sahara-based Islamists holding three Algerian diplomats hostage have sent a video of one of them to Mauritania's ANI news agency, ANI said,...
Italian priests, Canadian nun kidnapped in Cameroon
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped in northern Cameroon overnight, a bishop and a government source said on Saturday,...
Yemen security forces free Western hostages soon after kidnap
Yemeni security forces freed two Westerners unharmed on Tuesday shortly after they were kidnapped by gunmen in the capital Sanaa, police sources...
Italy says its citizen kidnapped in Libya, needs medical help
An Italian man has been kidnapped near the eastern city of Tobruk and there has been no communication from his kidnappers as...
ISS: Kidnap for ransom – to pay or not to pay?
It is one of the best-kept secrets in the world. As freed hostages step on the tarmac after being released by terror...
U.N. Security Council urges end to ransom payments to extremists
The U.N. Security Council urged countries on Monday to stop the payment of kidnap ransoms to extremist groups like al Qaeda, which...
Italian kidnapped in Nigeria has been freed
An Italian man kidnapped in Nigeria last week has been released, the Italian foreign ministry said on Thursday without giving further details.
Marcello...
Britain pushes U.N. resolution against ransom payments to extremists
Britain submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that calls on countries to prevent the payment of kidnap...
Mechem hostages in Senegal released
After 72 days in captivity, nine Senegalese Denel Land Systems (DLS)/Mechem employees have been released unharmed and without any ransom being paid.
They...
Better interventions can reduce the cost of hostage taking – ISS
Hostage rescue attempts in Algeria and Somalia this month resulted in many deaths. Additionally, incidents such as these fuel radicalisation of terrorist...
South African hostage in Mali ‘being treated well’
Three al Qaeda hostages, including a South African, kidnapped in northern Mali say they are being treated 'well' in a new video...
Burkina says in talks to free Qaeda hostages
Burkina Faso's government is involved in negotiations for the release of foreign hostages held by Al Qaeda's North African wing, said Foreign...
Two French journalists freed in Afghanistan
Two French journalists held hostage in Afghanistan for a year and a half have been freed, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.
Herve Ghesquiere...
