West Africa: Sahel Hostages - a New Enigma

The three coordinated terrorist attacks of 14 August (in Ouagadougou and Douenza and Timbuktu in Mali) as deadly as they were, must not hide a new development of major importance in the Sahel. A development that went unnoticed let us say due to ... ..the summer holidays.

The Swede Johan Gustafsson, kidnapped in Timbuktu on 25 November 2011 was freed on 26 June 2017. The South African Stephen Mc Gown, his companion of misfortune captured on the same day, was released on 27 July. On 9 August the Swede condemned the payment of ransoms to the hostage takers.

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