Many of the women had been picking fruit 'because there is nothing left to eat' as long-running insurgency hits food supplies Suspected jihadists have abducted about 50 women in insurgency-wracked northern Burkina Faso, local officials and residents say. Roughly 40 were seized around 12km (seven miles) south-east of Arbinda on Thursday and about 20 others were abducted on Friday to the north of the town, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
Many of the women had been picking fruit 'because there is nothing left to eat' as long-running insurgency hits food supplies Suspected jihadists have abducted about 50 women in insurgency-wracked northern Burkina Faso, local officials and residents say. Roughly 40 were seized around 12km (seven miles) south-east of Arbinda on Thursday and about 20 others were abducted on Friday to the north of the town, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
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