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2021-10-10 Africa North
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Mali frees a nun abducted by militants in 2017
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Colombian Franciscan nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, abducted in 2017 by militants of a radical group associated with Al-Qaeda, was released in Mali. This was reported on October 9 by the office of the President of the country on Twitter.
According to the office, the nun was abducted on February 7, 2017 near the Mali-Burkina Faso border by terrorists from the Masina Liberation Front extremist group. In the summer of 2018, video footage filmed by the terrorist organization Support Group for Islam and Muslims, where the nun was captured together with another hostage, French citizen Sophie Petronen, who was abducted in Mali in 2016, was leaked on the network .
What specific group of militants held Narvaes is not specified. During the entire period of the nun's stay with the militants, information about the ransom for her release was not received.
Earlier IA REGNUM reported about the death of a UN peacekeeper in Mali when an improvised explosive device was detonated.
| The Al Qaeda group in the the West African portion of the Maghreb is currently known as Nusrat al-Islam — more formally Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin' (JNIM) and by the French acronym GSIM — formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, Al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It is the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali. |
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