Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen free South Africans


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  • Friday, 10 Jan 2014

SANAA (Reuters) - Militants linked to al Qaeda have released two South Africans kidnapped in the Yemeni city of Taiz in May last year, local officials and tribal sources said on Friday.

The man and woman were in good health, the local officials said, declining to give details of where they had been held or how they were released.

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