Financial singer Rukia Traore has returned to her homeland, ignoring the travel ban issued by a French court based on a Belgian arrest warrant, due to a dispute over her child's custody with her ex-partner, her lawyer said Sunday.

The singer and financial guitarist were arrested on arrival from Bamako at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last month, but the Malian government condemned her arrest at the time, saying that Rukia Traore had a diplomatic passport.

A Belgian arrest warrant for Traore was issued after a court ruling against her late last year ordering her to return her five-year-old daughter to her Belgian father.

"I went back to Bamako," Traore said on her Facebook page. The pursuit of justice continues. ”

In Friday's post, Traore, who returned to Mali in a private plane, wrote that she is not "terrorist".

"This is a desperate mother who is afraid that her child will be taken from her, so she returned to Mali, where she lives," her lawyer, Kenneth Filho, told AFP.

Beyond music, Traore is well known for her work for refugees, and she was appointed a UN Ambassador for Refugees in 2016.

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