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Will Ross By Jonny Humphries
Africa editor, BBC World Service BBC News, Liverpool
The Italian government says three people from the same family who were kidnapped in Mali in May 2022 have been released. Julian Marley & The Uprising will appear at the free event in Liverpool's Sefton Park in June.
The husband, wife and son - called Rocco Langone, Maria Donata Caivano and Giovanni Langone - were seized from Koutiala, close to the border with Burkina Faso.
It is not yet clear what happened to their Togolese domestic worker who was also abducted.
A group linked to al-Qaeda was reportedly behind the kidnappping.
The Italian couple are Jehovah’s Witnesses and were planning to set up a church.
The government in Rome said despite their long detention, the three freed hostages were in good health and would be repatriated.
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