They were working for French companies, including the nuclear group Areva, which mines uranium in the Arlit region of Niger.
The hostages were working for French companies, including the nuclear group Areva, which mines uranium in the Arlit region of Niger.
In 1894 a cleaner at the German embassy in Paris who was working for French intelligence found a torn-up letter in the military attaché's waste-paper bin.
Tensions have been high generally since the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, and on Sept. 15, five French citizens, along with two African colleagues, were kidnapped by the Qaeda-linked group in a uranium-mining region of Niger, in central Africa, where six of them were working for French companies.
It all started in 2003, when Chamorro was working for French cash transportation company Temis.
Both men had been working for the French aid organisation Acted, assisting refugees in the north of the country.
She had been working for a French family which invited her, on her 18th birthday, to watch a film of Nazi concentration camps on TV.
Its members, whose average age is the late 70's, have been working for 60 years on a new French dictionary.
Mr. Hollande did not describe the conditions of the release of the hostages — Daniel Larribe, Pierre Legrand, Thierry Dol and Marc Féret — who were working for the French nuclear giant Areva, and Sogea-Satom, a subsidiary of the French construction group Vinci in Arlit, in northern Niger, when they were kidnapped in September 2010.
