Gulfnews.com reports that gunmen abducted two South African citizens on Monday in Yemen’s second largest city, Taiz, and police said a lawmaker was behind the kidnapping to pressure the government to hand over a disputed piece of land. It was the latest twist in Yemen’s bumpy road to democracy after more than three decades of autocratic rule that ended with long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s ouster in an uprising last year. The country’s new president is struggling to unify the country and its armed forces in the face of resistance from an active Al Qaida branch in Yemen and powerful tribes. Read article
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Thelocal.es reports that Two Spanish tourists were kidnapped on Friday in a remote area of northeast Colombia by a group that claims to be part of the country’s notorious armed group FARC, Spain’s foreign ministry reported on Tuesday. Although Spanish authorities haven’t released the couple’s names, Bogota newspaper El Tiempo has identified them as Ángel […]
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Were driving to a resort when abductors staged a car accident. Near border with Venezuela Colombian police, in coordination with the Spanish and special agents seeking two Spanish tourists were kidnapped last Friday in an area of Colombia bordering Venezuela. This is Angel Sanchez Fernandez, 49, and Conchi Marlaska, 43, who is a relative of […]
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Insightcrime.com reports that binational kidnapping gangs made up of Colombians and Venezuelans are spreading from the border states into central Venezuela, fueling a trend that has seen Venezuela overtake Colombia as a kidnapping hotspot. Over the course of a week, Venezuelan courts sentenced seven Colombians and one Venezuelan to prison for kidnapping in the central […]
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According to washingtonpost.com, “The Taliban took 11 civilians prisoner, including eight Turks and a Russian, after their cargo helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, in the first large scale capture of foreigners there in nearly six years. Security forces dispatched to the remote area retreated after engaging in firefights with […]
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As reported by en.trend.az, “Gunmen abducted an American tourist Thursday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a security official said, DPA reported. ‘The kidnappers have relatives in prisons and want them to be released in exchange for the US tourist,’ said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Police was negotiating with tribal chiefs in Sinai […]
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As reported by cnn.com, “Police in Brazil have arrested a third person in connection with the rape of an American woman on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos was arrested Monday night, police said. The woman boarded the minibus with another tourist in the Copacabana beach district in Rio de […]
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On March 15, 2013, a U.S. tourist was assaulted in a commission of a kidnap express. The victim was out for the evening with a date and took a taxi at about 9:00 PM from Mariscal Sucre about one block from plaza foche. After driving for for about five minutes the taxi stopped, at which […]
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On April 1, 2013, globo.com reported that a pair of men suspected of raping a foreign tourist were arrested on Saturday by local police. The two men are accused of having boarded a van in which the woman, 23, and her boyfriend were traveling Saturday. Authorities indicated that the tourists are Americans (U.S.). The two […]
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On March 24, AQIM renewed a threat to kill its French hostages and called on their families to pressure France’s government to end its military operation against radical Islamists who had seized control of northern Mali. The Al-Qaeda franchise is currently holding at least five French hostages in the region. It announced last week it […]
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