Tag: kidnappings

  • High risk of more foreigner kidnappings in Kenya: analysts – Capital FM Kenya

    Telegraph.co.uk High risk of more foreigner kidnappings in Kenya: analystsCapital FM KenyaSince September, gunmen have seized British tourist Judith Tebbutt and Frenchwoman Marie Dedieu from Kenya's Lamu archipelago, which is popular with tourists, and two Spanish aid workers from Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp. …Al Shabaab attacks are a declaration of warDaily NationTwo aid…

  • on security after kidnappings – Coastweek

    The Age on security after kidnappingsCoastweekTourism Minister Najib Balala said security forces have been beefed up along the Kenya-Somalia border and around hotels in the eastern Lamu archipelago, where elderly Frenchwoman Marie Dedieu was kidnapped over the weekend, according to a statement …Tourists flee Lamu as residents express fear for their own safetyThe StandardKibaki meets…