THE Foreign Office is looking in to reports that the five Britons kidnapped in Ethiopia are safe but in the hands of Afar separatist rebels.
The embassy staff and their relatives and eight Ethiopians are being held over the border in Eritrea, a community leader told the Reuters news agency.
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