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France "fully mobilized" to release hostage in Yemen

Xinhua, May 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

France is working to release an aid worker kidnapped in Yemen five months ago, the country's Foreign Ministry has said.

In a statement issued on Friday, the ministry confirmed that Nourane Howas, a French-Tunisian aid worker, has been adducted in Yemen since December 2015.

France was working with the International Committee of the Red Cross to secure her release, it added.

In a video released on Friday, Howas pleaded French President Francois Hollande and the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia to save her "from near death, as soon as possible." Endit