Malian singer Rokia Traore performs during the closing ceremony of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Libreville, Gabon February 5, 2017. — AFP pic
The singer and guitarist was arrested in March on a European arrest warrant when she arrived from Bamako at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. “This is a mother in a desperate plight who is afraid that her child will be torn from her,” her lawyer Kenneth Feliho told AFP. “That is why she left for Mali where she lives.”