N’Djamena – A Franco-Australian person has been kidnapped in eastern Chad, near the Sudanese border, “by as yet unidentified individuals”, the government in N’Djamena said in a statement on Saturday.
“The government has mobilised all security and human means to catch the kidnappers,” the authorities said.
“This abduction occurred yesterday, in the afternoon of October 28, 2022,” a statement added, without giving details of the abduction.
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The victim had been working in a park run by the Sahara Conservation Fund, a wildlife NGO.
The fund was set up in 2004 to help save the endangered scimitar-horned oryx.
Chad has been run by a military junta led by Mahamat Idriss Deby since his father was killed in an operation against rebels in April 2021.
A semi-desert state located in the heart of central western Africa, Chad has been chronically unstable since it gained independence from France in 1960.
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Source: AFP
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