Algerian authorities on Wednesday handed over freed Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro to Spanish officials in a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Algiers.

A Spanish man kidnapped by an armed group in the turbulent Algeria-Mali border region was heading home on Wednesday as Madrid confirmed his liberation. The foreign ministry in Madrid confirmed on Wednesday that the man had been freed with the participation of Spanish diplomatic and intelligence services.

A Spanish man kidnapped by an armed group in the turbulent Algeria-Mali border area thanked the Algerian authorities on Wednesday after his rescue. Identified as Joaquin Navarro, the Spaniard had been on a trip last week when he was kidnapped "by an armed group made up of five people",

A Spanish man has been kidnapped in North Africa in unclear circumstances, Madrid said Friday, adding it was working to secure his release.

The PF were pushed into Sahawari refugee camps whilst Morocco’s ensuing occupation of the region showed a flagrant disregard for the ICJ ruling. The African Union chose to recognise the SADR meaning Morocco became first and only African country to withdraw from the union.

MADRID — Spain’s foreign ministry says that ... newspaper El País both report that the man was captured in southern Algeria and then taken into Mali by the Islamic State in the Greater ...

A Spanish man has been kidnapped in North Africa, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, without providing details.

A Tuareg rebel alliance in northern Mali has released a Spanish man kidnapped in North Africa on Jan. 17, two of the group's spokesmen said late on Monday.

Fernando Moran Calvo-Sotelo, Spain's Ambassador to Algeria, and the Secretary-General of the Algerian Foreign Ministry, Lounes Magramane, attended the event. In a statement to the media ...

Share MADRID (AP) — Spain’s foreign ministry says that a Spanish ... Spanish state news agency EFE and newspaper El País both report that the man was captured in southern Algeria and then taken into Mali by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.

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