By Serge Daniel, Amaury Hauchard in N’Djamena – Missing French journalist Olivier Dubois says he has been kidnapped in Mali by a jihadist group with links to Al-Qaeda, according to a video circulating on social media on Wednesday. Olivier Dubois has worked as a freelance journalist in Mali since 2015, covering the country’s jihadist conflict for French weekly Le Point, as well as the left-of-centre daily Liberation. Souleymane said he accompanied Dubois to a street, where he saw the journalist get into a car with several men. French military officials questioned Souleymane for several days in Gao, where the French army has its main base in the Sahel region, before they handed him to Malian officials. Two French radio journalists were also killed in northern Mali in 2013.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 06, 2021 10:41 UTC