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Burkina Faso: 66 women and children freed after kidnap by armed assailants

Burkina Faso: 66 women and children freed after kidnap by armed assailants

Security forces stage rescue operation in country which is facing violent Islamist insurgency

Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, it has been reported.

The mass kidnapping was unprecedented in Burkina Faso, which is facing a violent Islamist insurgency that spread from neighbouring Mali in 2015.

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