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HAH: France has denied reports that the seven French nationals kidnapped in Cameroon have been released.
A French foreign ministry spokesman denied reports on Thursday that the hostages, who include four children kidnapped in Cameroon two days ago, have been freed, following international confusion over the fate of the hostages.
“We cannot confirm this morning’s information that [the hostages] were free,” Didier Le Bret, the director of the crisis cell at the ministry told France 24. “We contacted the families of the hostages to tell them that we had no information that supported the claims”.
France 24 had earlier on Thursday, quoting military sources in Cameroon France’s veteran minister, reported that the hostages have been freed in Nigeria.
French special forces are however in Cameroon to help free the hostages. The special forces arrived in the country on Wednesday from their regional base in neighbouring Chad to help with the hostage situation
“French special forces came in yesterday from N’Djamena to help with the investigation. They left yesterday and came back today,” Augustine Fonka Awa, Governor of Cameroon’s Far North Region told the Reuters news agency by telephone.
The French government believes the hostages were crossed into Nigeria, and kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgent group that operates in Northern Nigeria.

The french government has denied the report has false and baseless

The French foreign ministry has denied reports that a French family, kidnapped in Cameroon this week, have been freed.

Their supposed release dominated French media reports on Thursday, after a Cameroonian military source said they were "safe and well".

A French minister confirmed the news - but then was forced to backtrack.

France's government believes the family of seven, including four children, may have been taken by the violent Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.

The family - a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12, and an uncle - were snatched on Tuesday in northern Cameroon by six gunmen on three motorbikes, the French news agency AFP reports.

They had been returning from a visit to Waza National Park - which is described as a beautiful landscape, trodden by giraffes, elephants and antelopes - where they had spent the previous night.

The family are reported to live in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, where the father worked.

Urged to leave

The French government has said it believes they were taken across the border into Nigeria following their abduction, probably by Boko Haram.

On Thursday morning French media began to report that they had been found in Nigeria.

"They were found abandoned in a house in Dikwa" in Nigeria, about 100km [60 miles] from the border with Niger, a senior Cameroonian officer told AFP.

"They are in the hands of the Nigerian authorities."

The French veterans minister Kader Arif confirmed the news, but then backtracked, saying there was no official confirmation.

Cameroon's Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary then said: "It is a wild rumour. If this was true, the Cameroonian government would have already given the information to France," AFP reported.

After some hours, the French foreign ministry said in a statement that it formally "denied the information that the French hostages had been released".

On Wednesday, France urged its citizens to leave north Cameroon "as quickly as possible".

The French foreign ministry said on its website citizens were "officially advised not to go to the far north of Cameroon (the shores of Lake Chad in the South Maroua), and the border with Nigeria, until further notice".

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vizboy: trash talk abi na some cameroun area boys make no get mind na kidnapped them come drop for nigeria make them for say na bk do am. I know say bk no they kidnapped na bomb and killing be there own.

sharrap , Caneroon will invade all your northern lawless states .what kind of bs be this. High time to teach u how to deal with criminals.

there is more to this, vigilance and political wizardry is the key.

My dear Northern people the french and d israelites re nt like the americans ooo... They don't knw human mercy ooo.. They can come and throw bombs that will kill u & ur people including ur kids cos of jst one of their citizen...

Plz I will advice u go 4 d naija politicians or ur northern elites and leave those people alone for ur own gud.

After 2 days of upscale feeding - fresh Baguettes, foie gras, ratatouille and Champagne from Languedoc Rousillon - the boko boys could not keep dipping into their pockets to collect fresh naira to pay for the lifestyle 'des francais'

So Boko Haram too they fear. Am sure They release them because of fear of a reprisal attack from the french Government as they did in Mali.