French Aid from Charity Helps

PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Two French aid workers were kidnapped on Sunday evening in the northeast of the Central African Republic, their organisation said on Monday.

The two were seized in the town of Birao, Christian Lombard, co-director at French aid organisation Triangle, told Reuters. No further details were immediately available.

Birao is on the Central African Republic's border with Chad and Sudan. Earlier this month, a Frenchman working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped by armed men in Chad, leading the charity to temporarily suspend its activities in the region.

In October, another French citizen working for the ICRC was kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. Both aid workers are still being held captive, the ICRC said.

The Central African Republic is one of Africa's poorest and most isolated countries, with a weak government struggling to end several years of internal rebellions. (Reporting by Sophie Hardach, additional reporting by Jonathan Lynn in Geneva) ((sophie.hardach@thomsonreuters.com; Paris Newsroom +33 1 4949 5188; Reuters Messaging: sophie.hardach.reuters.com@reuters.net))

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