French President Emmanuel Macron is to welcome freed journalist Olivier Dubois at midday on Tuesday on his arrival at a military airfield outside Paris. Dubois, 48, was kidnapped in Mali on April 8, 2021 by the Al-Qaeda-linked Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel. He and a US aid worker -- 61-year-old Jeffery Woodke, who was seized in southwest Niger in October 2016 -- arrived in the Niger capital, Niamey, on Monday after being freed. For more on Woodke & Dubois' release from captivity, FRANCE 24 is joined by Arnaud Froger, Head of Africa Desk and Investigative Unit at Reporters Without Borders (RSF).


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