/ 5 April 1999

FRENCH AID WORKERS KIDNAPPED

AID workers with the French humanitarian group Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) have been kidnapped in drought-hit south-eastern Ethiopia, an ACF official said on Monday.

French engineer Eric Courly and two Ethiopian staff were snatched Saturday by ”an unidentified armed gang,” close to the Kebri-Dehar to Werder road, the official said. Four members of the local Somali community were also kidnapped.