More than 60 women, children freed in Burkina Faso after kidnapping – national broadcaster
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina said on Friday. Armed men seized the women and their children on 12th and 13th January outside two villages in the district of Arbinda, in the Sahel region’s Soum […]
Joy and scepticism as Myanmar frees hundreds held since coup
Reuters Myanmar freed more than 2,000 detainees on Wednesday, among them journalists and others who the ruling military said had been held on incitement charges for taking part in protests, local media reported. The release was described by some activists as a ploy by the ruling military to divert attention from an ongoing security crackdown. […]
KIDNAPPED
Imagine your group of friends go on a world trip. You’re having a great time but in an unscheduled stopover you are kidnapped. Freed!. PICTURE: Junior Moran/Unsplash The terrorists want $10 million, but there is no hope. No-one is negotiating with terrorists, and your families can’t pay. Stuck in a cave in a backward corner […]