'Unfailing support' for French journalist Olivier Dubois a year after Mali kidnapping

Reporters Without Borders projected a giant portrait of Olivier Dubois on the Panthéon, in Paris, as part of their campaign for his release. © Edmond Sadaka/RFI

A year to the day since French journalist Olivier Dubois was taken hostage by a jihadist group in Mali, President Emmanuel Macron says France is "fully mobilised" to ensure his release. RFI, meanwhile, is relaying messages of support on its airwaves.

The 47-year-old freelance journalist was kidnapped on 8 April 2021 in the northern region of Gao by the JNIM, the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel, linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.