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More than 110 civilians abducted six days ago in Mali
More than 110 civilians were kidnapped six days ago by Islamist extremists in central Mali, local sources said on Friday.
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These civilians were stopped last Tuesday aboard three buses by men who forced the vehicles and their passengers to head into a forest between the towns of Bandiagara and Bankass (central Mali), according to a group of associations in the region, who are calling for their release, and a local elected official.
"We are calling for the release of the more than 110 passengers of the three buses kidnapped on Tuesday by the jihadists," Oumar Ongoïba, a member of the group, said today.
"The three buses and the more than 120 passengers are still in the hands of the jihadists," said an elected official from Bandiagara, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons.
After the kidnapping, there were rumors that the Malian army would free the civilians in their custody.
On Tuesday, the same group of associations from Bandiagara issued a press release denouncing the "persistence of terrorist attacks," the "growing number of displaced persons" in the cities and the "inaction of the armed forces" in the region, without mentioning the kidnapping.
Since 2012, Mali has been plagued by the activities of groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, by violence from self-defense groups and by banditry. The security crisis is associated with a deep humanitarian and political crisis.
The violence has spread to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, precipitating military coups in all three countries.
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have broken their former alliance with the former dominant power, France, to turn militarily and politically to Russia, having formed the Sahel States Alliance (SSA) in November and announced their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The military in power in Mali since 2020 had promised to organize presidential elections in February to make way for a civilian regime.
But Mali's military-appointed prime minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, said this month that the junta would only organize elections for the return of civilians to power when the country was definitively stabilized.
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