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Family Renews Calls to Free South African Hostage in Mali

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Gerco van Deventer, 47, was kidnapped in Libya on November 3, 2017, on his way to a power plant construction site. He is the only South African citizen held hostage by a non-state actor in the Sahel, says his wife. French journalist Olivier Dubois, 48, and American aid worker Jeffery Woodke, 61, kidnapped in 2021 and 2016 were freed.

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Family of South African hostage held in Mali launches fresh appeal

Forty-seven year old, Gerco van Deventer, an emergency paramedic who was working for a security company was kidnapped in Libya on November 3, 2017

·Pointe-Noire, Congo
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Family Renews Calls to Free South African Hostage in Mali

Johannesburg - The family of a South African held hostage by jihadis in Mali for more than five years launched a fresh appeal for his release Saturday,

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