Brussels, 10/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU has strongly condemned the kidnapping and killing of two French nationals last Saturday in Niger. The French and Niger authorities both suspect that they fell into the hands of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQI).
On Monday 10 January, the spokesperson for Catherine Ashton, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, declared that “following the kidnapping and the killing of two young Frenchmen in Niger, Catherine...