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Sarkozy welcomes Somalia aid workers release
Aug 11, 2009, 13:32 GMT
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday welcomed news that several international humanitarian workers, including two French nationals, had been released after nine months' captivity at the hands of Somali kidnappers.
Details of the circumstances of the release of altogether six persons were still sketchy. Sarkozy only said he was 'very relieved' about the fortunate end to the matter. He thanked all those who had helped to resolved the kidnapping.
His remarks come amid reports from Mogadishu that six people - two Kenyan pilots and four foreigners with the humanitarian group Action contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) - had been released.
The foreign aid workers included the two French women, a Belgian and a Bulgarian national.
The aid workers had been captured in November 2008 at the airport of Dhusa Mareb, some 350 kilometres north of Mogadishu.
The development comes after three other members of the hunger action group were seized in the Kenyan border town of Mandera and taken to Somalia. The three included a European national, a Pakistania and a Zimbabwean. Their fate is still uncertain.
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