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Burkina Faso Announces Release Of Polish Hostage

By Angel Gimalo
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Burkina Faso Political Map with capital Ouagadougou, national borders, most important cities, rivers and lakes. English labeling and scaling.

Elsewhere in Africa, The military authorities in Burkina Faso have announced the release of a Polish hostage who was kidnapped on 27 April 2022

Another news website, quoted the information minister as saying that the Polish national had been taken hostage by an unnamed armed group on the Matiacoali-Kantchari axis in the east of the country as he was travelling to Niger.

He is said to have been released last Friday and transported by security forces to the capital, Ouagadougou, before being handed over to a Polish delegation on Tuesday.

Al-Qaeda militants have previously said they have been involved in kidnapping foreign nationals in the Sahel region, including Burkina Faso.

Last April, three foreign journalists – two Spaniards and one from Ireland – were found dead after they went missing in eastern Burkina Faso.

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