{"id":10295,"date":"2021-05-15T07:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2021-05-15T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:29:58","slug":"french-journalist-kidnapped-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/french-journalist-kidnapped-in-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH JOURNALIST KIDNAPPED IN MALI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10296\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Press-Mali.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Press-Mali.jpg 499w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Press-Mali-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>Islamabad; 15 May 2021 &#8211; Arnaud Froger, the head of the Africa desk at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5cb8824c726d51483ba41891e&amp;id=d8b5d6585c&amp;e=10c4d6b1bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/rsf.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D5cb8824c726d51483ba41891e%26id%3Dd8b5d6585c%26e%3D10c4d6b1bc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1621148109845000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFB1-7N89t9fUSXUTohgxwzlAQiHg\">in a video released on 5 May<\/a>,\u00a0the French journalist Olivier Dubois confirmed that he had been kidnapped on 8 May in Gao, in northeastern Mali, by a coalition of Jihadi groups called the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM).\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Dubois was an\u00a0experienced reporter\u00a0who knows Mali well, he was abducted when he went to the meeting place that had been arranged for an interview. RSF was informed shortly after he went missing but, like the media outlets that employ him, took the decision not to report his abduction in order not to hamper the possibility of a rapid positive outcome.<\/h3>\n<h3>His abduction has reminded us that journalists risk their freedom and sometimes their\u00a0lives to keep us informed about the Sahel, one of the world\u2019s most dangerous regions for media personnel.\u00a0Two Spanish journalists, David Beriain and Roberto Fraile, were killed\u00a0while reporting in neighbouring Burkina Faso on 26 April. Two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, were murdered in Mali in 2013.<\/h3>\n<h3>Now is the time to mobilise so that Olivier Dubois does not suffer the same fate.\u00a0We urge the Malian and French authorities to do everything possible to obtain his release and we offer our full support to his family and friends.\u00a0To support RSF\u2019s actions in Mali and throughout the world, make a donation today.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; 15 May 2021 &#8211; Arnaud Froger, the head of the Africa desk at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said that in a video released on 5 May,\u00a0the French journalist Olivier Dubois confirmed that he had been kidnapped on 8 May in Gao, in northeastern Mali, by a coalition of Jihadi groups called the Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[117,135,1268,1269,1267,1270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10299,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}