Five Chadian, Senegalese, Franco-Ivorian and Cameroonian employees of Médecins sans Frontières were kidnapped on Thursday by armed men in the Far North of Cameroon where jihadist groups operate, the NGO and an official told AFP on Friday. of local administration.
“Armed men entered the MSF home” and “five members of our team were taken” to Fotokol, on the border with Nigeria, where the jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap ) regularly attack civilians, MSF said in an email to AFP.
The army looking for them
Three aid workers, a Franco-Ivorian, a Senegalese and a Chadian, as well as two Cameroonian security guards were kidnapped, a local administration official told AFP, who requested anonymity. “There is nothing to link this act to the attacks of Boko Haram. We don’t know if it was a simple theft gone wrong. A safe has been opened,” he added, adding that the army is looking for them.
Neither the identity nor the motives of the perpetrators are known to date,” MSF said.