Tag: kidnapping
Irish missionary and seven others freed weeks after kidnapping in Haiti
Gena Heraty was abducted at orphanage she ran along with seven Haitian colleagues including three-year-old child An Irish aid worker and seven fellow captives have been released nearly a month after they were kidnapped in Haiti. Gena Heraty, a missionary who ran the Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in the hills outside Haiti’s capital,…
France expels 12 Algerian officials as row over alleged kidnapping escalates
Move follows Algiers’ expulsion of diplomats, after France’s arrest of man linked to abduction of influencer Amir DZ France has expelled 12 Algerian consular and diplomatic officials and recalled its ambassador in Algiers, the French presidency said on Tuesday, in a retaliatory measure as a spat escalates between the two countries. “The Algerian authorities are…