BAMAKO – Malian politician Soumaila Cisse's captors kept hostages constantly on the move in the inhospitable desert, he told French television, describing his six months with al-Qaida-linked militants as “near permanent physical and moral isolation.”His interview with TV5 Monde came as Swiss authorities confirmed that another hostage held by the same group was dead.The militants freed Cisse in the past week along with French hostage Sophie Petronin and Italians Nicola Chiacchio and the Rev.
Pierluigi Maccalli days after Mali's government released nearly 200 jailed jihadists in an apparent exchange.Late Friday, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said French authorities had informed them that Swiss hostage Beatrice Stoeckli had been killed about a.