MUSCAT: A female Franco-Tunisian Red Cross worker kidnapped in Yemen almost a year ago was freed on Monday and taken to Muscat, officials in Oman and Switzerland said.

Nourane Houas, a staff of the ICRC’s humanitarian protection program in Yemen, was abducted in the Huthi rebel-held capital Sanaa in December 2015. She was seized along with a Yemeni employee who was also released several hours later.

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