Four Moroccans who were kidnapped in Burkina Faso, Saturday January 18; a Spaniard kidnapped in Algeria last week; an Austrian woman and a Nigerien man – former director of the Niger food products office (OPVN) – kidnapped in Niger on January 11… None of these kidnappings has been claimed, but local sources point to the entire responsibility of the branch Sahelian of the Islamic State group.
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Sahel: what the recent kidnappings attributed to the Islamic State in the Sahel say
