A map of Cameroon and Nigeria, locating Bakassi Peninsula. Ten oil workers, seven of them French, one Tunisian and two Cameroonian, who were kidnapped and threatened with death by rebels in Cameroon have been released safe and sound after being held for 12 days. (AFP/Graphic/Er / Gil)From AFP:
YAOUNDE (AFP) – Ten mainly French oil workers who were kidnapped and threatened with death by rebels in Cameroon were released safe and sound late Tuesday after being held for 12 days.
The seven French nationals, one Tunisian and two Cameroonians, workers for French shipping company Bourbon, were seized by gunmen who stormed aboard their ship off the coast of Cameroon's Bakassi Peninsula on October 31.
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