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Olivier Dubois has been held by armed teams since he went lacking within the Sahel in 2021.

French journalist Olivier Dubois, who was kidnapped by armed teams within the Sahel almost two years in the past, was launched on Monday, in accordance with an AFP journalist and a consultant of Liberation newspaper the place he labored.

Dubois, who went lacking in Mali in 2021, arrived on a airplane on the airport in Niamey in neighbouring Niger on Monday. He emerged trying drained, however smiling.

He was the primary French nationwide to be taken hostage by rebels in Mali since French assist employee Sophie Petronin was freed in October 2020. She had been kidnapped close to Gao in Mali in late 2016.

Scores of insurgent fighters have been launched in 2020 in a prisoner swap deal that liberated Petronin, a senior Malian politician and two Italians.

Dubois labored for Liberation and Le Level journal, each France-based publications.

He had appeared in a video early Might 2022, interesting to authorities to do every little thing they might to free him from the armed teams holding him.

“We’re deeply relieved and comfortable about this final result,” Liberation director Dov Alfon mentioned.

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