Director of CISP Waited in Algiers to Follow the Hostage Crisis

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After the kinaping of Italian aid worker Rossella Urru, at Sahrawi refugee camp in Tindouf, south west of Algeria, the Director of the Rome based International Committee for the Development of Peoples (CISP), Paolo Dieci, is to arrive to Algeria in a couple of days to follow closely the issue.

The Italian hostage is a worker at the CISP. She was kidnapped on Sunday with two other Spaniard aid workers, identified as Ainhoa Fernandez de Rincon from a pro-Sahrawi organisation in Extremadura, western Spain, and Enric Gonyalons who was working with Basque non-profit group Mundubat.

The Africa Area Manager at the CISP, Debora Ritsoli, told Echorouk reporter in a phone call that Mr Dieci is to arrive to Algiers within the three coming days. He should be accompanied by his assistant in charge of Africa Programmes, Ms Ritsoli added.

She specified that the Direcor of CISP is in a permanent contact with the Italian Foreign Ministry and the Italian Embassy in Algiers to discuss recent developments of the issue.

Yet, the office of CISP in Algiers has rejected making any statement about the issue, as the Italian Foreign Ministry has required the humanitarian organisation and the Italian Embassy in Algeria to maintain abstention from making any comment on the issue to the press.

No party has yet claimed responsibility of the kidnapping, noting that the Sahrawi Polisario Front points at Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

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