Mali, Free Cooperating Spanish. Silence on Italian

11 hours 56 minutes a cooperating Spanish kidnapped in Mali by a group linked to al Qaeda was released. This was confirmed today the Spanish government. Continue reading this Story The Foreign Ministry maintains the line instead of silence on the situation of two Italians kidnapped nearly three months ago on the border with Mali, Sergio Cicala, 65, and his wife Filomena Kabouree, 39, originally from Burkina Faso, the which the media were initially announced and then denied his release. "It 'a no news, I can not confirm because I do not say anything until we have our hostages in Italy. I have never changed the line of total silence" said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to journalists on the sidelines of a hearing in the House. No news on even the Spanish Government, while sources from the Presidency of Burkina Faso said that negotiations are continuing. but was kidnapped along with Alicia Gamez two Spanish colleagues with whom he was traveling in the north of Mauritania toward the southern Senegal last November. The news of his release date was previously a non-governmental organization for which she works. "We learned from the press early this morning and confirmation came much later," he told state television Josep Ramon Jimenez, a spokesman Accio the NGO Solidarité. Cicala and his wife were kidnapped along with their driver December 18 in eastern Mauritania, on the border with Mali. A few days later, the group had posted on an internet site three photos of the kidnapped. Last month the group Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (Aquim) has issued a message to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Cicala and President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. — On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia