"I WILL STAY WITH YOU." Sophie Petronin
"I will stay with you." Sophie Petronin survived four years in captivity in Africa at the hands of jihadist militants. A photograph on the Reuters website (October 9, 2020) shows a small woman walking beside French President Emmanuel Macron.They are at a military airport near Paris, France. The woman is 75 year old Sophie Petronin . The story that accompanies the photograph is amazing. It tells how Sophie, a French aid worker, (along with three other hostages) was "released in Mali after negotiations led by the West African nation's security services and international partners." They were flown to the capital Bamako late on Thursday. Mali, the eighth largest country in Africa, is landlocked. Sophie Petronin ran a charity for malnourished and orphaned children in that...