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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Police said a French journalist abducted by Somali gunmen was released Monday, eight days after he was seized in the northern part of the country.
Cameraman Gwen Le Gouil was seized Dec. 16 outside the town of Bossaso in Puntland, an area associated with coastal piracy and known as a staging post for human traffickers running boats into Yemen. Elders from Somalia's influential clans had intervened to try to win his release.
"He is now in Bossaso and is feeling well. No ransom was paid," Puntland Police Commissioner Abdiaziz Said Mohamoud told The Associated Press by phone.
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