WASHINGTON: A Romanian mineworker kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda affiliate last year appeared in a video released Monday urging his government to secure his release as soon as possible.

Iulian Ghergut, then a security officer, was taken on April 4, 2015, when five armed men attacked a manganese mine in Tambao, 350 kilometers northeast of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, officials said at the time.

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