INTRO: An aid organisation in South Africa, Care of the Givers, has criticized the timing of a failed rescue mission by US Special Forces in Yemen. The effort to free American hostage Luke Somers ended in the Al Qaida terrorists killing the US journalist and a South African hostage, Pierre Korkie. Care of the Givers say Korkie's release had been negotiated over several months. Gary Alfonso reports ...
IN: The South African government ...
OUT: Alfonso, Abuja.
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