Cameroon Africa: French government urges citizens to leave northern areas

Posted on February 20, 2013 • Filed under: Africa, Conflicts, Tourist Kidnapped, Tourist Warning

France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family — a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle — were snatched in northern Cameroon by six gunmen on three motorbikes on Tuesday and officials said they had been taken across the border into Nigeria. Read Article

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