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2020-03-15 Africa North

Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso released

[Jpost] A Canadian woman and Italian man kidnapped in Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
' peacekeeping mission in neighboring Mali and appear to be in good health, a mission front man said on Saturday.

Edith Blais and Italian Luca Tacchetto went missing while traveling through Burkina Faso, a country where jihadist groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
are active and have kidnapped Westerners in the past.

It is not known who was responsible for Blais and Tacchetto's kidnapping or if any ransom was paid.

UN mission front man Olivier Salgado told Rooters that the two were received by peacekeepers on Friday evening and would be handed over to Malian authorities later on Saturday.

He shared a photo of Blais and Tacchetto wearing U.N. human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
t-shirts and sweatpants. Both are grinning in the photo and appear to be healthy.

Another Canadian, Kirk Woodman, was kidnapped in January 2019 from a mining site where he was working in Burkina Faso and found dead later the same week.

Islamic State claimed to have kidnapped and killed him, but security sources told Rooters they believed he actually died during a botched attempt by a criminal gang to sell him on to another group.

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