Four French men kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in northern Niger almost two years ago have appeared in a video appealing to French President Francois Hollande and their employers to continue negotiations for their release.
The seven-minute video, posted on a Mauritanian news website, shows Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dole and Marc Ferret looking healthy and kneeling in a desert setting with armed men in traditional Bedouin clothing and turbans standing over them with Kalashnikov rifles.
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