Jihadists claim to have kidnapped Red Cross team in Mali

BAMAKO: A leading Islamist militant group has kidnapped a team of Red Cross workers in northern Mali who had been reported missing, an official from the jihadist group said on Tuesday.

The members of the International Committee of the Red Cross team "are alive and in good health" in the hands of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, a MUJAO official said told Agence France-Presse when contacted by telephone from the capital Bamako.