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 plane carrying Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro, who was kidnapped in North Africa on Jan. 17, was expected to land in Algeria's Boufarik air base, Algerian state media reported on Tuesday. His expected arrival at the Algerian air base comes after a Tuareg rebel alliance in northern Mali said late on Monday they had released Navarro.

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.

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",

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

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.

"I am very happy to be here," Navarro said at an Algiers press conference, standing next to Madrid's ambassador to Algeria Fernando Moran Calvo-Sotelo and Algerian Foreign Ministry Secretary ...

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.

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