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In 2017 South African medic Gerco van der Venter was kidnapped and sold to an Al-Qaeda group in Mali. His family last heard from him in January via a video recording it received from Gift of the Givers. The Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show got an update from his wife Shereen and found out how the family has been coping.

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