In the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, two German men who had been held hostage by rebels since Jan. 18 were released to German Embassy officials on March 6. They had been kidnapped during a bloody attack on a group of tourists trekking on Erta Ale Volcano (March ’12, pg. 19). Two Ethiopians taken in the attack remain missing.
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