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REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) has called on the French and Malian authorities to do all they can to secure the release of journalist Olivier Dubois, who was kidnapped by Islamists nearly two weeks ago.
In a message released on Saturday the head of the RSF Africa desk Arnaud Froger said that time was critical for the freelance journalist, who writes for the news magazine Le Point and the Liberation newspaper.
Mr Dubois was taken hostage in Mali’s Gao region on May 5 and released a video appeal shortly afterwards, confirming that he was being held by Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin, an offshoot of al-Qaida.
He says he was abducted by the al-Qaeda affiliated group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM).
“I’m asking my family, my friends and the French authorities to do everything in their power to free me,” he adds.
Reporters Without Borders, a media freedom non-profit group, said Mr Dubois is an “experienced reporter who knows the region well”.
“We were informed of his disappearance two days after he went missing,” the Paris-based organisation said in a tweet.
“In coordination with the news organisations that usually employ him, we took to the decision not to report his abduction in order not to hamper the possibility of a rapid positive outcome.”