41.   Yemeni officials assured the British government Sunday that a British oil worker kidnapped in Yemen by armed tribesmen was alive and well, the Foreign Office said.

42.   Four Dutch tourists were taken hostage by armed tribesmen in northern Yemen and government troops have been deployed to force their release, police here said on Friday.

43.   Indian army and paramilitary troops patrolled the jungles of Kokrajhar, a Bodo stronghold, to flush out armed tribesmen, officials said.

44.   Armed Afar tribesmen kidnapped nine Italian tourists in Eritrea near the border with Ethiopia, the Italian foreign ministry said Thursday, quoted by the ANSA news agency.

45.   Armed tribesmen have abducted the six-year-old son of a Yemeni official after the government ignored their request for financial aid, police said Tuesday.

46.   Armed Toayman tribesmen last month fought a gunbattle with security forces in Sanaa in a land dispute, leaving one person dead and seven wounded.

47.   Armed tribesmen kidnapped the diplomat with his car near the embassy in the capital and drove off to the Maarib region.

48.   Five Polish tourists taken hostage six days ago by armed tribesmen in Yemen were freed and arrived in Sanaa on Wednesday, police said.

49.   Yemen has launched a military crackdown on armed tribesmen and Somalia announced the arrest of eight suspects.

50.   Yemen has launched a military crackdown on armed tribesmen and Somalia recently announced the arrest of eight suspects.