Two female American tourists were released Friday night, hours after masked gunmen kidnapped them on the road that leads to St. Catherine’s Monastery, a historic landmark in the Sinai Peninsula, a military official said.The kidnappers had pulled over the minivan the women were traveling in and abducted them, along with their Egyptian tour guide, the local police official said. Read article
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The German travel industry has called on Kenya to find a solution to the recent evictions of the Samburu tribe, and warned its position as a tourist destination could be damaged. Germans currently spend more money abroad than any other nation. In a letter to President Mwai Kibaki, the head of the German Travel Association […]
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A British tourist has been killed by a swarm of bees while on holiday in Africa. Mick Bryan, 61, and his wife Jacqueline, 43, were on a trip exploring Tanzania, and had just celebrated her birthday when the attack took place. Read Article
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The expat, who is believed to work for the Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp, was snatched from his car by gunmen in the city of Warri. A man with him at the time, said in local reports to be a police escort, was shot dead during the incident last Friday. Read Article
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MILITARY COMMUNIQUÉ On Monday (16.01.2012) our forces killed 16 Ethiopian soldiers and wounded a dozen of them in a battle when the Ethiopian forces opened fire on our patrolling unit near the Arta-Ale Volcano in a place called Xoxom. It was in this battle that the 5 European nationals were killed. We regret the death […]
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Algerian security forces have claimed to have foiled an al-Qaeda plan to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. and European ships in the Mediterranean coast of Algeria, as reported by the Algerian newspaper ” Echorouk ‘. The alleged plan, which would be implemented by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), would be aimed at […]
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Mauritanian Tourism Minister Bamba Ould Dramane has recently criticised the French government’s reports on security in northern Mauritania, describing them as “unfounded”. The 2010-2011 reports “are not accurate and are harmful to Mauritania’s economic interests”, he said in a statement aired on a state-run television on January 6th. “They are paralysing tourism in Adrar (the […]
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ADDIS ABABA — Unknown attackers killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region, state television reported Tuesday. The foreigners, whose nationalities were not immediately known, were killed on Monday in the remote region bordering Eritrea, Ethiopian Television said, citing the defense ministry. Read article
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Two female aid workers working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were kidnapped at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp near Somalia on Thursday. Police suspected that al Shabaab militants were responsible. Read Article
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A French woman seized in northern Kenya was taken to Somalia by her captors after a sea battle to rescue her failed, Kenyan government officials said. Gunmen snatched the woman early Saturday from her holiday home in Manda Island, close to where a Briton was abducted and her husband killed last month. Read Article
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