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State-run radio and television announced the retrieval of the captives by the
Burkinabe military on January 20, eight days after the initial capture. In the statement, twenty-seven women and thirty-nine children were freed after being discovered at a bus security checkpoint 200 kilometers away from
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Several women and children were able to escape the kidnapping. Three women who escaped the initial attack warned their villages. However, a second kidnapping targeting around twenty women took place the next day also near
Arbinda. Immediately after the attack, the mayor of
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Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
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815:"The Silent Threat: Kidnappings in Burkina Faso"
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66:January 12–13, 2023
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302:Falagountou
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