Five MSF aid workers kidnapped in northeastern Cameroon


DOUALA (Reuters) - Five staff members of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres were kidnapped overnight in Cameroon's Far North, a region where militant group Boko Haram operates, the aid group said on Friday.

The workers were organising humanitarian projects in the area when armed men broke into MSF's residence in the town of Fotokol, an MSF representative told Reuters.

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