Those responsible for the man’s kidnapping were believed to be linked to Al Qaeda’s North African affiliate or other radical Islamist groups in northern Mali, French officials said.
About 40 people, many of them children, were killed on Friday in renewed tribal attacks along the coastal Tana River Delta, Kenyan police officials said.
Senator John Kerry said the United States needed to re-examine how the military might play a greater role in protecting diplomats after the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday to send thousands of African troops to help Mali oust Islamist extremists.
The five survivors said the boat was overcrowded and ran into trouble almost immediately after leaving a port in the northern Somali breakaway region of Puntland.
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