Africa News Current Events #2

Ten Hostages Seized Off, Cameroon Freed
On October 31st, pirates had attacked a French ship in the waters of Cameroon, taking 10 crew members as hostages. Six of the captured were French nationals, two were Camerronians, one was Tunisian and onew waus Senegalese. No one was injured according to Bourbon, shiping company.
The attack in the middle of the night when 3 boats of armed man came by. The Bourban Sagitta had been loading crude oil from a field off the Bakasi Peninsula, about 180km away from Cameroon when suddenly pirates attacked the ship on the way and took 10 crews as while fleeing. French Foreign Minister had called Paris to deal with the situation. But on November 11th, the hostages were brought home safe and sound. President Nicolas Sarkozy's office and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's office said that they credited help from Cameroon's president, Paul Biya and Nigerian government.

I thought that this article was important because this article also had impact on other parts of the world-France- and it is a very recent news. It lead to more articles and at the end the hostages were released. And I thought that this article was kind of interesting that the pirates had attacked the ship and fled with 10 hostages. I didn't know that there were that many pirates in the sea near Cameroon.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/11/cameroon.hostages.freed.ap/index.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/31/cameroon.hijacking/index.html