Cameroon: French tourists including children kidnapped in Cameroon

Gunmen from Nigeria kidnapped a French family that included four children on Tuesday in northern Cameroon near the border with Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande said.
They were apparently tourists, he said. The risk of attacks on French nationals and interests in Africa has risen since France sent forces into Mali last month to help oust Islamist rebels occupying the country’s north. “They have been taken by a terrorist group that we know and that is in Nigeria,” Hollande told reporters during a visit to Greece. Islamist militants in northern Nigeria now pose the biggest threat to stability in Africa’s top oil-producing state. Read Article