Frenchman kidnapped in Sudan in March was released
The French president’s office confirmed on Sunday that a French national who had been kidnapped in Chad’s Abeche region in March, and taken to the restive Sudanese region of Darfur, has been released.
“The President of the Republic has learned with great satisfaction about the release of our compatriot who was abducted in eastern Chad and then taken by his captors to Sudan,” it said in a statement.
Sudan’s national security service said earlier that the man had been freed and was on his way to the capital Khartoum.
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Sudan has been working with Chadian and French authorities for weeks to secure the release of the Frenchman, who has not been identified. He was abducted south of Abeche, a mining area about 800 km (500 miles) east of Chad’s capital N’Djamena and 150 km from the border with Sudan.
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