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Burkinabe army frees abducted women, babies

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 20 Jan 2023 23:32
3 Min Read

Burkina Faso's armed forces manage to free a group of over 60 civilians that had been abducted by extremists earlier in the week.

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  • Soldiers patrolling in the Sahel area in 2019 in Burkina Faso (Reuters)
    Soldiers patrolling in the Sahel area in 2019 in Burkina Faso (Reuters)

The Burkina Faso Armed Forces rescued a group of 62 women and four babies that had been abducted last week by terrorists in the country's north, state television reported on Friday.

The Burkinabe RTB TV channel touched on the army's "operation", showing images of the women that had been freed on Friday and brought to the country's capital.

It was reported on Monday that some 50 women were abducted days earlier by suspected terrorists in Burkina Faso, in the northern town of Abrdinda, a region that has been under blockade by extremist groups for nearly a year. 

According to testimonies of several witnesses and local officials who wished to remain anonymous, a first group of forty women was kidnapped a week earlier about a dozen kilometers from the southeast of Arbinda.

Some of the women reportedly managed to escape and return to their villages to tell what had happened. 

The kidnappers are suspected to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda or IS, sources say.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk called for "the immediate and unconditional release of all the abducted women," adding that this "could be the first such attack deliberately targeting women in Burkina Faso."

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Abductions and armed conflicts have been quite frequent in the city of Arbinda in recent years.

For nearly a year since the country has been struck by insurgencies, Idrissa Badini, a civil society spokesman, said that the population of Arbinda "is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster" due to it running out of vital reserves. 

The UN estimates that about one million people live in blockaded regions in Burkina Faso.

Over the past year, Burkina Faso saw a number of political instabilities, with two governments subsequently overthrown over the course of nine months.

In October 2022, Ibrahim Traore was sworn in as head of the transitional government of Burkina Faso in front of the country's constitutional council.

In late September, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the leader of an interim government who came to power through a coup in early 2022, was ousted by a group of military officers led by Traore in what became the second military takeover in the country in eight months.

Damiba himself had overthrown elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January 2022.

It is noteworthy that the UN warned in October 2022 that 4.9 million people, or a fifth of Burkina Faso's population, are in urgent need of aid, citing the fact that many "mothers were compelled to feed their children with leaves and salt."

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