Ransom paid for British banker held by Al-Qaeda in Mali for 6yrs

Published time: 4 Aug, 2017 08:56 A British banker held by a Malian wing of al-Qaeda for six years has been freed after a reported £3.2 million (US$ 4.2 million) ransom was paid. Stephen McGown was captured from his hotel in Timbuktu in 2011 while on a motorcycle trip across the continent. He was planning […]