Sahel
Following Sophie Pétronin's release, Colombia asks France to help free Sister Gloria

Nun Gloria Cecilia Narváez was kidnapped on 7 February 2017 in Timbuktu, Mali.
Nun Gloria Cecilia Narváez was kidnapped on 7 February 2017 in Timbuktu, Mali. © Fair use
President Ivan Duque has ordered his diplomats in Europe to try to advance the case of Colombian nun Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, who was kidnapped by jihadists in February 2017 in Mali. [...]
Published on 16.10.2020 at 05:00 GMT
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Kabore follows Compaore's example and talks to the Jihadists

Burkinabe president Roch Kabore, who is receiving generous subsidies to help him combat the radical groups operating on his borders, is conducting parallel negotiations with the very Jihadists he is supposed to be fighting. In so doing, he is following the example set by his predecessor, Blaise Compaore, whose entourage never broke contact with the armed Jihadi groups.

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