Claudia (Bahedi), a Swiss woman who was married to Moktar, a local Tuareg, and who some of you may remember from her auberge and Agence Tarahist in southern Tam in the early 00s, was kidnapped in Agadez yesterday.
Apparently she resettled there and remarried a local man after Moktar died many years ago.
We stayed at her Tam gite in 2003 with some other riders who went on to be kidnapped in the mass abduction of that year which started it all.

Her abduction follows Austrian, Eva Gretzmacher's kidnapping in January.

https://www.journalduniger.com/agade...la-communaute/

F***!


Thanks Chris. Not sure I'd have spotted this. I last heard from Claudia end of last week.

Sad news. She knew it could happen, I suppose. Like many others that stay. I last met her in 2008, liked her no-nonsense attitude. Did not know she moved to Agadez. Let's hope for the best

Proof of life pic of Eva Gretzmacher - https://airinfoagadez.com/2025/04/29...leigs-au-mali/

Nothing about Claudia yet... Younes, her son is quoted - "We know nothing. We pray that she will still be alive."


Looking at this account - https://bsky.app/profile/conflictwatch.bsky.social - it's not good news across the region.