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Two police acquitted

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Bundung Magistrates Court presided over by Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara, recently acquitted and discharged Karamo Saidy and Omar...

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Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia

africa » somalia » buaale

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Two foreign aid workers attached to a United Nations (UN) project were kidnapped in southern Somalia on Tuesday. The UN stated that the two men, one...

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CONGO: Arrest over abduction of indigenous family's child

africa » congo basin » brazzaville

Sunday, March 30, 2008

The High Court in southwestern Congo has indicted a member of an influential family on charges that he was responsible for the forced disappearance...

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SENEGAL: Rebels act on kidnap threats in Casamance

africa » senegal » ziguinchor

IRIN

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Rebels belonging to the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) kidnapped 16 villagers in Bissine, 64 km east of Ziguinchor near the...

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Somalia: MSF demands access to the area where the two MSF expatriates are still in captivity, in order to check their status

africa » somalia » bosasso

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

More than 48 hours after their abduction, Mercedes Garcia and Pilar Bauza continue in captivity . Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...

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Chad court sentences six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour

africa » chad » ndjamena

Wikinews

Thursday, December 27, 2007

A Chadian court today sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour for their role in a plot to kidnap 103 African children and fly...

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IPO testifies In alleged police kidnappers’ case

africa » gambia » bundung

Monday, December 17, 2007

Sergeant Lamin Cham, the investigation police officer (IPO) in the ongoing kidnapping case involving Karamo Saidy and Omar Jarjusey, both personnel...

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Nine French nationals face kidnapping charges in Chad

africa » chad

Wikinews

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Nine French nationals, that were arrested after they were caught trying to airlift over a hundred children from the country, will face charges of...

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In Police officer’s kidnapping case Prosecution witness absent

africa » gambia » bundung

The Daily Observer Newspaper

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

The on-going criminal trial involving Omar Jarjusey and Karamo Saidy, both personnel of the Gambia Police Force (GPF), was on Monday adjourned to 9th...

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NIGERIA: Curfew in Port Harcourt makes life safer but harder

africa » nigeria » port harcourt

IRIN

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Many residents of Port Harcourt, the main city in Nigeria's poor but oil-rich Niger Delta region, are complaining that a night-time curfew imposed...

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