Held hostage
Negotiator touches down in Mali to help South African hostage after five years of being held by al-Qaeda
The family has not afforded the ransom, and the state has a no-pay policy
12 April 2023 - 17:17
Five-and-a-half years have passed since Gerco van Deventer, a South African paramedic, was captured in Libya by a splinter group of al-Qaeda before being “sold off” to captors in Mali...
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