DAKAR (Reuters) - A worker for the charity Oxfam was abducted in Chad on Sunday, a spokesman for the group said on Tuesday.
"We do not know who took him. We have not been contacted," Oxfam's Charles Bambara told Reuters. He declined to give the worker's name or nationality.
The abduction took place near the town of Abeche in eastern Chad where the United Nations peacekeeping force, MINURCAT, has a base, Bambara said.
The U.N. has agreed to withdraw MINURCAT from the poor, violence-ridden central African country by the end of the year under pressure from the government.
Humanitarian groups have warned that MINURCAT's withdrawal could put aid efforts at increased risk of attack by rebel groups active along the long and porous border with Sudan.
A French worker for the Red Cross was kidnapped in Chad late last year and held by a group called African Free Eagles for three months before being released.
