Malian group frees Spanish national kidnapped in Algeria

An armed alliance in Mali said on January 21st that it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week, reported AP.

The Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a coalition of separatist armed groups in the predominately Tuareg north of Mali, said on X that it had freed Spaniard Gilbert Navarro.

“The former Spanish hostage, Mr. Navarro Giane Gilbert, has been released by the FLA and is in good health,” said spokesperson Mohamed Maouloud Ramaadan.

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