Nigerian kidnapper gets seven years

A court in Kenya has sentenced a Nigerian man to seven years imprisonment for kidnapping three United States businessmen and trying to obtain a ransom of over $5m.

The Nigerian, Augustine Azubuike Nwanga, was arrested in April with two suspected accomplices, who are still on trial, in an operation by Kenyan police supported by the American Federal Bureau for Investigation.

They tracked down the gang and rescued the hostages when Mr Nwanga went to pick up part of the ransom.

The Americans were lured to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, after being approached on the internet to invest in fishing and diamond mining companies.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service