The South African embassy in Mali is assisting with the repatriation arrangements for a South African man who was killed during the siege of a hotel in the country, the department of international relations said on Sunday. “The embassy is liaising with the authorities and the embassy will provide consular[…]
Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers said on Thursday that it was hoping that the captors of South African national Stephen Malcolm McGown and Swedish citizen Johan Gustafson would soon make contact. Gift of the Givers founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said they had sent a negotiator to Mali where the two[…]
The father of kidnapped South African Stephen McGown was happy to see his son in good health, and even still in possession of his watch and wedding ring. “Normally, I think these guys take people and they strip all their valuables, their cellphones, anything and everything else,” Malcolm McGown told[…]
Aid organisation Gift of the Givers has agreed to assist the McGown family in securing Stephen McGown’s release. “It is well understood that in situations like these there are no guarantees of success. It has been a very tough and trying time for the family having waited 3 years and[…]
The wife of a South African man who was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Mali more than three years ago is in poor health, his father told News24 on Tuesday. Stephen McGown was preparing to start a family with his wife before he was kidnapped in November 2011, said Malcolm McGown.[…]
Mali is scrambling to prevent a major Ebola epidemic after the deaths of an Islamic cleric and a nurse, as the official death toll in the worst ever epidemic of the virus passed 5,000. The two deaths in Mali have dashed optimism that the country was free of the highly-infectious pathogen[…]
Nine United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in Mali in the deadliest attack yet on the UN mission to the West African country, a spokesman for the mission said. The convoy of the peacekeepers, who were from Niger, were attacked in an ambush on Friday and came under fire from[…]
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