Over 60 women, children freed in Burkina Faso after kidnapping
By Reuters
23 January 2023 |
4:40 am
Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Television du Burkina (RTB) said on Friday
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