Mali: Liberated Burkinabé humanitarian worker

kidnapped earlier this week in Gao, this logistician is now free. We do not know the conditions of his release, as well as the identity of the kidnappers.

mo12345lemonde with AFP

The Burkinabé humanitarian worker of the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who had been kidnapped on Monday in Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, was released on Friday, December 23.

Man, logistician at MSF according to a Malian police source, had been kidnapped on December 19 by armed men in a district of Gao, had told the France-Presse another police source.

“He was released and is safe and sounds. He flew to a humanitarian flight to Bamako”, the Malian capital, a foreign humanitarian source told Gao.

Serious security crisis

/Media reports cited above.