US officials confirmed on Monday that an American held by an armed militant group in West Africa had been freed after more than six years in captivity.
The 2016 kidnapping of Jeffery Woodke was the result of a brazen attack in which gunment stormed his home in Niger and absconded with Mr Woodke towards the country’s border with Mali, where a long-running civil war has left parts of the country including border areas held by militant groups including the Islamic State of Greater Sahara.
