Spain evacuates aid workers from western Algeria

Spain is evacuating all its aid workers and three added adopted nationals from refugee camps in Tindouf, western Algeria, due to "growing insecurity".

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said 12 Spaniards, two French nationals and an Italian would access in Madrid by aggressive even on Sunday.

Earlier this ages three European aid workers bedeviled from a refugee affected abreast Tindouf were appear by a insubordinate group.

The accumulation said it was an adjunct of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

Mr Garcia-Margallo said the accommodation had been taken afterwards reviewing "well-founded affirmation of a austere access in crisis in the region".

He said that the arctic of neighbouring Mali had been "converted into a belvedere for terrorism".

Northern Mali was bedeviled by Islamist and Tuareg rebels afterwards a accomplishment in March.

An afraid accord amid the two has back collapsed, abrogation al-Qaeda Islamists in ascendancy of all three of the region's capital cities - Timbuktu, Gao and Kidal.

Thousands of bodies accept fled the arena and bounded affiliation Ecowas has appear affairs to accelerate 3,000 troops to intervene.

Mr Garcia-Margallo said on Saturday that Spain would be accommodating to abutment an Ecowas mission in the region, although it was not bright what anatomy that abutment ability take.

Last October, Spanish aid workers Enric Gonyalons and Ainhoa Fernandez forth with Italian aide Rossella Urru were bedeviled from the Rabuni refugee affected abreast Tindouf by rebels from the ahead alien Movement for Oneness and Jihad (Mujao).

Negotiators who organised their absolution this ages appear they had been freed afterwards a captive bandy involving two Islamists actuality captivated in Mauritania.

There were additionally letters of a bribe actuality paid, but this was not accepted by the negotiators.