Their kidnapping, on April 5 follows Boko Haram’s abduction in Cameroon last year of a priest and seven members of a French family.

The Italian foreign ministry confirms the release of Italian priests Gianantonio Allegri and Giampaolo Marta and Canadian nun Gilberte Bussier

It hasn’t given detailed of how they were freed.

But it thanks the Canadian and Cameroon authorities.

In addition to their religious tasks, the priests were improving water supplies and fighting the spread of HIV Aids.

Cameroon’s despatched 1 000 troops to its border with Nigeria to fight the growing threat from Boko Haram.

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