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The charity helped in efforts to secure the 2017 release of Stephen McGown, another South Africa held by al-Qaida in Mali for nearly six years. The Sahel has been ravaged by a jihadi campaign that began in northern Mali in 2012, sweeping into neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger in 2015.