Algerian authorities on Wednesday handed over freed Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro to Spanish officials in a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Algiers.

Algiers Province, Algeria - January 22, 2025 The Spaniard Joaquín Navarro, kidnapped in Algeria on 14 January and released on Tuesday 21 January, said on Wednesday in Algiers that he is still in a ‘state of shock’ because of the ‘complicated’ moment he has gone through and asked for a few days to be able to recover a state of calm and tranquillity’.

Algeria plays a prominent role in counterterrorism and ensuring everyone’s security, the Spanish government said. Spain praised Algeria’s contribution to liberating its national Navarro Canada Joachim and noted that Algeria has a long record in such humanitarian positions.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali’s predominately Tuareg north, said on X that it freed Spanish citizen Gilbert Navarro.

Released Spanish hostage Navaro Canada Joaquim, right, who was abducted in southern Algeria on Jan.14, 2025, Spanish ambassador to Algeria Fernando Moran Calvo-Sotelo, left, and Algeria's Secretary General Lounes Magramane,

ALGIERS/BAMAKO - A plane carrying Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro, who was kidnapped in North Africa on Jan. 17, was expected to land in Algeria's Boufarik air base, Algerian state media reported on Tuesday.

BAMAKO, Mali — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali’s predominately Tuareg north, said on the social media platform X that it freed Spanish citizen Gilbert Navarro.

A Spanish tourist was abducted on Wednesday, January 15, in southern Algeria by armed terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS).

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Spain's foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country.

A coalition of separatists in Mali, the Azawad Liberation Front, on Tuesday said it had freed a Spanish national kidnapped by a group of bandits in Algeria. The kidnappers had hoped to sell him to

Since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, there has generally been a strong bilateral security relationship between Spain and the United States. In terms of security cooperation, the Government of Spain has regularly deployed its armed forces to fight alongside the United States and other NATO member states.