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Two MSF workers kidnapped at Kenya’s Dabaab refugee camp, driver shot

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two women, Medecin Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff, were kidnapped at 13:20 Thursday 13 October from the Ifo extension area of the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya....

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Colombian child released with Red Cross help

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl in Colombia three weeks ago outraged the country and when Nohora Valentina Munoz was released near the Venezuelan border...

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Somali kidnappers demand ransom for French woman’s remains

GenevaLunch News France announced that 66-year-old Marie Dedieu, who was kidnapped on October 1 from her beach house in Kenya, and taken to Somalia, has died in the hands of her captors, most probably...

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Trio arrested in Brazil for cannibalism

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A man, his wife and his mistress were arrested in Northeastern Brazil for allegedly killing at least two women and then eating them. The three, who admit using...

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Swiss hostage in Yemen shown in video, uncertainty over validity

GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen in March appears in a video that has been published on the Internet, but according to Swiss public broadcasting RTS it is not yet...

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Kidnapping system gets live test in Vaud

GenevaLunch News LAUSANNE, SWIZTZERLAND – A 12-year-old girl kidnapped from the Trois Sapins middle school in Echallens, canton Vaud, police alerted, witnesses heard: the story was a false alarm but a...

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Joint police effort nabs German who kidnapped his daughter

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss alert system for kidnapped children functioned effectively this weekend, resulting in a 41-year-old German man’s arrest in Germany for kidnapping his...

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Irish property tycoon found after apparent kidnapping

GenevaLunch News 8 months after disappearance, starving McGeever found wandering on road GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Kevin McGeever, an Irish property tycoon who was known for making his money selling homes...

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American student kidnapped, taken to Lyons, released

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police have confirmed to GenevaLunch.com that an American student was kidnapped and taken to France, where he was released. “The ‘banditism’ brigade in...

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Swiss hostage released after year in captivity in Yemen

GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A 33-year-old Swiss teacher of languages who was kidnapped in March 2012 by armed militants at her home in Yemen has been released. No ransom was paid and it...

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