French hostage freed in Yemen arrives in Oman

She is now within the palms of French authorities and will probably be returned to France “within the coming hours”, in response to a press release early Friday from the presidential Elysee palace.

No details of her release were provided.

Prime, who arrived in Sana’a in March 2013, worked for Ayala Consulting – an American company which had been a subcontractor for a program partially financed by the World Bank.

Prime was abducted in the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, along with her Yemeni translator, who was released shortly afterward.

Oman played a role in negotiating her release in coordination with “some Yemeni parties” following a request for help from the French government, according to the report.

Frenchwoman Isabelle Prime, freed after almost six months of captivity in Yemen, arrived in Oman on Friday before she returns to Paris to be welcomed by her “unbelievably happy” father.

In June she appeared in a 21-second video posted on YouTube by her captors. “I tried to kill myself several times because I know you will not cooperate and I totally understand“.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius spoke to Prime by phone, he said in a statement.

In recent years tribesmen in Yemen have kidnapped foreigners as a means of putting pressure on the government to provide them with better services or to release jailed relatives.

But in December, US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie died during a failed attempt by US commandos to rescue them from an Al-Qaeda hideout in southeastern Yemeni.

The three were members of the French NGO Triangle Generation Humanitaire.