Africa Contact condemns terrorist attack on Saharawi refugee camps

Africa Contact's  Western Sahara group strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Saharawi refugee camps in South-West Algeria on last weekend that resulted in the kidnapping of three European international aid workers and the injury of two, the Spanish hostage, Enric Gonyalons and a Saharawi security guard.

The hostages are two Spanish nationals Fernandez Coin Aino, member of the Association for Friendship with the Saharawi people in Extremadura (Spain), Enrico Gonyalons from Mundubat NGO, and Rossella Urru from Italy, member of the Italian NGO CISP.

Africa Contact expresses strong solidarity with the hostages families and with the Saharawi people and demands the immediate release of the kidnapped Aid Workers without them being harmed.

In this the first terrorist attack in 36 years in the Saharawi Refugee Camps against foreigners, Africa Contact, while demanding with greatest vigour condemnation of this inhuman terrorist act, reaffirms our organisation's firm stand for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence.

In a statement issued by the Saharawi Authorities, it said the attackers came from the direction of neighbouring Mali in four-wheel drive vehicles and "left from where they came."

AFRICA CONTACT
Copenhagen 26. October 2011

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Morten Nielsen
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