Addis Ababa, Oct 29, 2011 (SPS) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU), Dr. Jean Ping, has strongly conmdemned the kidnapping of three humanitarian aid workers in the Saharawi refugee camps by terrorist group.
“The AU continues to follow developments relating to the kidnapping, on 23 October 2011, by militants of Al‐Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), of three European aidworkers (two Spanish and one Italian) in Rabouni in the Sahrawi Refugee camps in Tindouf,” said Firday Dr. Ping in a press release.
He also conveyed AU’s solidarity with the families of the abducted, calling on all the countries of the region to intensify their cooperation in the fight against terrorism in the Maghreb region. (SPS)
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