(17 Apr 2010)
KINSHASA – All eight Red Cross staff workers kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week have been released unharmed, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.
The eight, a Swiss citizen and seven Congolese, had been held by a faction of the Mai Mai militia since they were seized during a mission last Friday to assess the needs of displaced civilians in Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu. “It was an unconditional release as we have wanted all along and we are all very relieved that they are out without any harm to them,” Inah Kaloga at the ICRC.
Source: Reuters