French journalist kidnapped by radical Islamists in Mali appears in video pleading for his life
5/5/21
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from The Washington Post,
5/5/21:
A French journalist who was abducted by Islamist militants in Mali last month has appeared in a video pleading for his release.
Olivier Dubois was kidnapped in the northeastern city of Gao on April 8 by an al-Qaeda-linked affiliate known as Jamaa Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), or the Support Group for Islam and Muslims, according to the video and Paris-based press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders.
“I’m Olivier Dubois. I’m French. I’m a journalist. I was kidnapped in Gao on April 8 by the JNIM,” he said in the 21-second clip released Wednesday.
The footage could not be immediately verified
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