A Colombian nun has been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Mali, a Malian security source and a local official said Wednesday.
The woman was kidnapped late Tuesday near Koutiala, a city some 400-kilometer (250-mile) east of the capital, Bamako, which is in the Sikasso region near the Burkina Faso border.
“The Malian army is in pursuit,” a security source whoRead more
A Malian state prosecutor said on Wednesday that the militant group Al-Mourabitoun is suspected of kidnapping a French-Swiss aid worker from the city of Gao in northern Mali.
Sophie Petronin has not been seen publicly since Saturday, when men snatched her and drove off in a pickup truck. She ran a charity for malnourished children and had lived in GaoRead more