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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lorenzo Tondo and agencies

Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium

Rokia Traoré.
Rokia Traoré at the Cannes film festival in 2015. Photograph: Régis Duvignau/Reuters

Malian musician Rokia Traoré, who was arrested in Rome last June over an international child custody dispute, will be handed over to Belgium in the coming days after Italy’s highest court rejected her appeal, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

Traoré, 50, a former goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, was arrested on 20 June at Rome’s Fiumicino airport under a European arrest warrant.

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