Abducted Burkina women flee from jihadist gunmen through bush
Women and children stand outside an accommodation for internally displaced people from northern Burkina Faso in Kaya. Some Burkina women adbucted by Islamist insurgents have fled from their captors. PHOTO | OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT | AFP
Piercing thorns and stones underfoot did not stop the young woman as she charged through thickets, baby strapped to her back, fleeing armed militants who had kidnapped her with dozens of others in northern Burkina Faso last week.
