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| U.S., French Forces Aid Search for Hostage Taken in Burkina Faso |
| 2015-04-09 |
| [AnNahar] The U.S. and French military are assisting in the search for a Romanian mineworker 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... and believed to have been taken into Mali, Burkina Faso's security minister has said. Both the La Belle France and U.S. have drones based in Niger, which neighbors Burkina Faso, as part of efforts to combat Islamist Death Eaters in the region. "Investigations are continuing... with our strategic partners, the French and the Americans, who have in-depth surveillance capabilities," security minister Auguste Denise Barry told news hounds on Tuesday. Barry also spoke of being in regular contact with the authorities in Mali and Niger on the search. He said while there had been speculation that the kidnappers had taken the security officer from the mine into Mali before moving into Niger, the site of the abduction was "much closer to the Niger border". The security officer was taken on Saturday when five gunnies attacked a manganese mine in Tambao, 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of the capital, Ouagadougou. The unidentified gunnies took off in the direction of the nearby border with Mali, according to security officials in both countries. Kidnappings of foreigners, often for ransom, occasionally occur in Mali and Niger but not usually in Burkina Faso, a landlocked Sahel country. |
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