French aid worker freed by captors returns home from Mali | Malay Mail

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PARIS, Oct 9 — French aid worker Sophie Petronin was reunited with her family on home soil today, a day after being freed by insurgents in Mali who abducted the 75-year-old on Christmas eve nearly four years ago. President Emmanuel Macron and other officials greeted Petronin, France’s last...

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes French aid worker Sophie Petronin after suspected jihadist hostage-takers freed the 75-year-old from nearly four years of captivity in Mali, upon her arrival at the Villacoublay military airport near Paris, October 9, 2020. — AFP pic

No public statements were made, though Macron had earlier called Petronin’s release an “immense relief”. Mali’s government has not revealed the circumstances of the releases, which followed talks with hostage-takers. Mali’s government has been struggling against a brutal jihadist insurgency that emerged in the north in 2012, which has since spread to central Mali as well as to Burkina Faso and Niger.

Cisse was kidnapped on March 25 while campaigning in his home region of Niafounke, central Mali, ahead of parliamentary elections.

 

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