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Sierra Leone ALERT: Female journalists taken hostage over reports on FGM

Friday, February 13, 2009

Four journalists in Kanema, a town of about 200km from Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, were on February 7, 2009 taken hostage by members of Bondo...

Nigerian pirates grab French ship

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7813139.stm

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Pirates have seized a ship owned by a French company off the Nigerian coast, taking nine crew members hostage. The company - Bourbon - said the...

Ghana ALERT: Traditional leader takes newspaper journalist hostage

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Osei Kwame, reporter of the Kumasi Mail, an independent weekly newspaper based in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city was on July 28, 2008 arrested...

Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia

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...