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Not that I believe ransom should be paid to the Sahel Criminal, because it encourages further kidnappings but FYI, Ripcord Insurance will only pay $10,000 if it happens to you.

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Jörg Lange, kidnapped 2018

https://twitter.com/Baba_A_/status/1554539386200539137
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Recent kidnappings (of foreigners)

'In Mali, Nopparat Rattanawaraha, who runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts travel clips, returned to Thailand after being released on payment of a reported $150,000 ransom [after three weeks]. He was seized while driving from Burkina Faso into Mali with a driver and guide...'

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...i-kidnap-drama

'In Chad,*a Franco-Australian Jérôme Hugonnot working for the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) was kidnapped [near the Sudan border] for two days... He arrived in the early evening aboard an army plane [at] Adji Kosseï military base, notably housing the headquarters of Barkhane, the French anti-jihadist force in the Sahel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...napped-in-chad
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'In Mali, Nopparat Rattanawaraha, who runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts travel clips, returned to Thailand after being released on payment of a reported $150,000 ransom [after three weeks]. He was seized while driving from Burkina Faso into Mali with a driver and guide...'

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...i-kidnap-drama

'In Chad,*a Franco-Australian Jérôme Hugonnot working for the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) was kidnapped [near the Sudan border] for two days... He arrived in the early evening aboard an army plane [at] Adji Kosseï military base, notably housing the headquarters of Barkhane, the French anti-jihadist force in the Sahel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...napped-in-chad
First time, as far as I can remember, that I hear about kidnapping in Chad, any impressions of who is behind it? The Sudanese border seems a long way from the troubled Sahel region west of Lake Chad.
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Kidnappings are not unheard of in Chad (2006 Bilma Erg; 2007 Tibesti) but it was more Yemeni style robbery/hostage/ran$om, and certainly not jihadists.

There was even a film about one in the 80s, Le Captif du Desert.
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This just popped up in the Moroccan media.

https://fr.le360.ma/politique/sahel-...rocains-271921

Jorge Lange released in Mali
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First time, as far as I can remember, that I hear about kidnapping in Chad, any impressions of who is behind it? The Sudanese border seems a long way from the troubled Sahel region west of Lake Chad.
Most of Chad's border regions are rather sketchy from a security perspective. The Lake Chad area got a bunch of headlines semi-recently, but all of their borders have been porous and unstable for a long time. For example, in the northwest, the Tibesti region has had security problems for many years, and the gold mining has only made it worse. Keep in mind that's where the (now dead, former) president was fighting rebels. Also, Faya area (in the north) has a thriving smuggling industry from Libya. Its fairly normal to see lots of relatively new, expensive Toyotas driving around with Libyan tags.
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Great news for Jorge Lange.

Afaik, Other known western captives include:
  • Romanian mining engineer Julian Ghergut, Burkina 2015
  • Italian family, Mali 2022
  • German missionary Hans-Joachim Lohre, Bamako 2022

Updated summer 2023 but still about as short as the list has been for 20 years.

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Great news for Jorge Lange.

Afaik, Other known western captives include

That's about as short as the list has been for 20 years.
Yeh but they have no problem finding replacements
https://www.aciafrica.org/tag/fr-hans-joachim-lohre
abducted from his home in eastern Bamako Nov 22
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132802
Abducted near Menaka Jan 25
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