The aid workers were kidnapped as they were returning from a research mission in Rutshuru area, near the Ugandan border.
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Centre for the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights said on Monday that
16 Congolese aid workers were kidnapped by an armed group in the east of
Congo.
The 14 researchers and two drivers from
the Rural Development Centre, which supports farmers, were stopped
Sunday at gunpoint by about 10 people, the human rights group said.
The group's Director, Omar Kavotha, said that the kidnappers probably belonged to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, one of dozens of armed groups operating in eastern Congo.
The aid workers were kidnapped as they were returning from a research mission in Rutshuru area, near the Ugandan border.
Kidnappings
for ransom have increased in the region, according to the rights group,
adding that more than 100 such cases have been reported in the Rutshuru
area over the past four months.
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