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Jérôme Hugonnot, a French-Australian national who works in Chad for the ONG Sahara Conservation Fund, was reported to have been kidnapped on Friday in the north-central African country.

In a case that has gripped the country, the 17-year-old was found in a state of shock and told police she was held captive by kidnappers but managed to flee.

French freelance journalist Olivier Dubois, who disappeared in the northern Mali town of Gao on April 8th, appeared in a video on Wednesday appealing for the authorities to secure his release from captivity at the hands of an al-Qaida-linked jihadist group. 

Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann is claimed to have planned abduction with eight-year-old child’s mother.

An eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped in eastern France last Tuesday from the care of her grandmother has been found in Switzerland, where her mother was arrested.

French police have arrested four men aged between 23 and 60 in connection with the kidnapping on Tuesday of an eight-year-old girl, which investigators believe was carried out on behalf of her mother who had lost custody of the child.

Thieves stole up to 30m Swiss francs ($32mor £23m) on French-Swiss border after first kidnapping the daughter of a cash van delivery driver.

French and Malian troops are searching for Sophie Pétronin, who ran an NGO helping children suffering from malnutrition, who was kidnapped in the city of Gao in northern Mali on Christmas Eve.

Jacqueline Veyrac was found in a car parked in a district of Nice, bound and with minor injuries, 48 hours after she was kidnapped.

The 30-year-old, who worked as a consultant on a World Bank-funded project, was seized in the capital Sanaa in February.

Isabelle Prime, 30, a consultant for Yemen's Social Fund for Development, appears distressed in the video appeal to French and Yemeni leaders.

Isabelle Prime, 30, who worked for Ayala Consulting on a World Bank-funded project, was the only member of firm's staff left in Yemen.

The 30-year-old woman, who is believed to have ties with the World Bank, was taken by unidentified armed men in the capital Sanaa.

The 67 year-old teacher for her own Catholic ONG was kidnapped in the Central African Republic by Christian militiamen on Monday.

Claudia Priest, 67, a teacher with a Catholic medical NGO in the Central African Reupublic, was kidnapped in the capital Bangui on Monday.