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Ghana says Israeli businessman kidnapped for ransom
ACCRA (Reuters) - An Israeli businessman has been kidnapped in Ghana and his abductors are demanding $300,000 for his release, a senior security officer in the West African country said on Friday.
National Security Coordinator Sam Amoo told the state-run Ghana News Agency that the Israeli executive, whom he did not identify, was seized on Sunday.
The kidnappers contacted his relatives in Israel, asking for an initial ransom of $500,000, but later reduced their demand to $300,000, Amoo added.
The relatives informed Israel's embassy in Nigeria, which in turn contacted Ghanaian authorities, who were hunting for the missing executive. No more details were immediately available about the kidnapping or the identity of the abductors.
Kidnappings of foreign nationals are common in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer located further to the east of Ghana in the Gulf of Guinea, but are rare in Ghana, which has enjoyed economic growth and political stability in recent years.
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(Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
