imageYAOUNDE: Ten Chinese and 17 local hostages have been released in Cameroon, where they were kidnapped earlier this year in raids blamed on the Nigerian group Boko Haram, Cameroon's president said Saturday.

"The 27 hostages abducted on May 16 in Waza and July 27 in Kolofata were released to the Cameroonian authorities this night," President Paul Biya said in a statement on national radio.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2014

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