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Will Ross | |
Africa editor, BBC World Service | |
There are reports from Mali that at least 100 civilians are being held by suspected jihadists after being kidnapped last week. | |
Local residents told the AFP news agency that they were travelling in three buses when the attackers forced them to drive in the direction of a forest between Bandiagara and Bankass. | |
Six days on, there has been no sign of the dozens of hostages. | |
This area of Mali's Mopti region has seen frequent attacks by Islamist fighters. | |
Following several recent attacks in the area, people are getting increasingly frustrated. | |
Civil society organisations in Bandiagara have been staging protests denouncing the fact that many people have been displaced and calling for a military camp to be set up to protect the local communities. | |
Following a coup in 2021, Mali's military rulers ordered thousands of international troops to pull out leaving the country even more fragile. | |
Jihadist attacks began in northern Mali more than a decade ago and have spread to the centre of the country as well as neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger. | |
This prompted military coups in all three nations. | |
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to form joint force to fight jihadists | |
The coups that promised - and failed - to bring safety | |
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