Cape Town – In the dusty and remote village of Tébessa, Algeria, a three-storey brick building looms over the surrounding sands. It is in this house that Gafsa Jacobs says her husband has kept her children for the past four months. 

On Monday, after returning from a futile attempt to bring her two young sons home to Cape Town, the Rondebosch mother pointed to a picture of the building on her cellphone and told the Cape Argus: “My children are in there.”

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