Two European women held captive for more than a year in Niger freed in Libya 14 minutes agoBasillioh Rukanga
Christoph Greztmacher Eva Greztmacher looks up in sunglasses. A blue sky and desert scrubland can be seen behind her. She is wearing a necklace with a ring as a pendant.Christoph Greztmacher
Eva Greztmacher, 76, had spent many years in Niger as an aid worker

Two women - a Swiss and an Austrian – have been freed after more than a year in captivity in Niger and handed over to authorities in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

Swiss national Eva Gretzmacher, 76, and Austrian Claudia Abbt, 69, were kidnapped separately in the northern Nigerien city of Agadez in January and April last year.