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Gift of the Givers negotiator Mohamed Yehia Dicko has departed for Mali in what the organisation has described as a 'final' attempt to secure the release of South African hostage Gerco van Deventer.
Western Cape resident Van Deventer has been in captivity for more than five years now following his kidnapping in Libya in 2017.
The Gift of the Givers has engaged the captors of paramedic Gerco van Deventer, who has been held hostage in Mali since November 3 2017, said director Dr Imtiaz Sooliman on the return of their negotiator this week to South Africa.
In a video released by the humanitarian aid organisation last month, Van Deventer confirmed that he had been kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda splinter group and was being held captive.
Yahya Dicko, the negotiator for releasing a South African paramedic captive in Mali, is back in the country to convey 'sensitive information'.