Rwanda rebels free 3 kidnapped Red Cross staff members

Geneva-based organisation, Red Cross has revealed that Rwanda rebels have released three Red Cross staff members who were kidnapped three days ago in eastern Congo by Rwanda rebels.

“They are free, they were handed over to the local authorities and they will be back in Goma tomorrow,” an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spokeswoman told Reuters, giving no further details.

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The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, a grouping of former soldiers and Hutu fighters behind Rwanda’s 1994 genocide have been blamed for the kidnapping by the Congo-based Centre of Studies for the Promotion of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights.

Aid workers are frequently abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in January the United Nations said a spike in the number of kidnappings and insecurity had made it difficult to provide humanitarian aid.

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