Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who were kidnapped on 4 December by rebels in the Bouenza region in the southwest of the Republic of Congo, have been released.
Both men, Frenchman Thierry Baudina, 41, and Congolese Guy Alain Ngoualer, 37, were in good health when they were reunited with their ICRC colleagues, the ICRC announced on Sunday. They had been abducted near the village of Doungou while conducting a needs assessment of displaced populations in the Bouenza region.
The day after the kidnapping, the ICRC spoke of seven unidentified armed men as having been responsible, while the government openly accused the Ninja rebels. The ICRC has declined to identify the kidnappers since the abductees were released.
In April 2002, Ninja rebels abducted and killed a French parish priest of Mayama in the Pool region.
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