 Mali's presidency says a Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants has been freed. Gloria Cecilia Navias was kidnapped by the Masina Liberation Front, an Al Qaeda-linked group in February 2017 near the border with Burkina Faso. Navias was seen smiling and dressed in a yellow robin headscarf, meeting with Mali's interim president, Asimi Gohita, and a fierce freedom-followed petition for help from France, said Colombia's vice president and foreign minister, Matalusia Ramirez.