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Dr Kenneth Elliott, the 88 year old Australian taken in 2016 near the Mali - Burkina Faso border, has been freed.
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Dr Kenneth Elliott, the 88 year old Australian taken in 2016 near the Mali - Burkina Faso border, has been freed.
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Wow. That is amazing, the best piece of news from the region for a long time.
Kidnapped in Djibo in 2016. Seven years! At his age.
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Romanian citizen Iulian Ghergut, who was kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2015 by a jihadist group, returned home yesterday according to Morocco World News.
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Good news. With Iulian Ghergut's release that means all western hostages of many years captivity have been freed and the list is as short as it's ever been.
The only current captives are from 2022: a missionary grabbed in Bamako last November, and an Italian family of Jehovahs from southeastern Mali.
Hopefully it won't be 8 years for them.
https://sahara-overland.com/kidnappings/
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Gerco van Deventer released
Gerco van Deventer, who was taken hostage in Libya in 2017 and who is believed to have been held in Mali, has just been released after 6 years in captivity. The initial price of freedom was quoted at $3 million but that was negotiated down to $500 000. Release in Mali and then Mauri proved difficult. Reports are that Algeria emerged as the country from which he was released.
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