<span style="color: #222222;">In Ethiopia, 21 university students had been freed yesterday after gunmen held them captive for weeks. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A spokesman for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told state television that 13 female students and eight males had been released in a peaceful manner but that six others were still unaccounted for. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Nigussu Tilahun said that they were working with local elders, religious leaders and security forces to secure the release of the students peacefully. He did not mentioned whether ransoms were paid nor whom the government believed was responsible.<br />'' <br />'' A student said the group was abducted on December 4 last year when gunmen stopped a bus ferrying them to Addis Ababa from Dembi Dollo University.</span><br />''