[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso‘s northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on Jan. 12 and 13, the government said on Monday. The mass kidnapping is a first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighboring Mali in 2015 despite costly international military efforts to contain it. […]