A French aid worker abducted last Monday in the Central African Republic has been freed.<br /><br /> Claudia Priest, who is 67, worked for a charity providing health and education to rural villages.<br /><br /> She was released along with another humanitarian worker seized with her in the capital Bangui by mainly Christian anti-Balaka militia. They were formed to fight Muslim Seleka rebels who took power for 10 months in 2013.<br /><br /> News of the aid worker’s release was <br />announced by the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, who thanked the government and religious authorities of the Central African Republic.<br /><br /> But no details were given of the circumstances surrounding the release.
