Topic: Gauthier Lefevre

Freed Darfur kidnap victim tells of daily fears

Franco-British former hostage Gauthier Lefevre on Saturday described the "daily struggle" of staying positive for five months as the kidnap victim of a criminal gang in Sudan's war-torn Darfur."Staying positive for the whole day was a daily struggle," the International ...
<div><p>A Franco-British staffer of the international Red Cross kidnapped in Darfur last October was freed on Thursday, the last captive aid worker in the war-torn Sudanese region to be released.</p><p>"I am extremely relieved to be freed. I ...

Red Cross calls for release of Chad aid workers

The head of International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday appealed to the kidnappers of two staff seized in Chad and nearby Sudan to release them unharmed. "I appeal today to the sense of humanity of the abductors of Gauthier Lefevre ...

Darfur kidnappers demand 3 million euro ransom

The kidnappers of a Franco-British Red Cross worker in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region are demanding a three-million-euro ransom, a senior Sudanese official said on Tuesday.Abdel Baqi Gilani, a state humanitarian affairs minister, said they have " demanded a ransom of three ...
A French employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday, the aid agency said. "We can confirm the abduction of one of our employees in the vicinity of ...