A medical doctor working for the World Health Organization is abducted in eastern Mali where armed militants linked to Al Qaeda and Daesh are active
The World Health Organization said that it is working with local authorities to investigate the abduction.
Dr Mahamadou Diawara was taken from his car on Monday in the town of Menaka, located in an eastern region where militant groups linked to Al Qaeda and Daesh are active.WHO "is working with local authorities to investigate the abduction and ensure our colleague's quick return to his family," the statement said on Tuesday.He has been leading efforts to provide medical care to remote communities at risk of violence.
Militants have seized swathes of territory across the Sahel, a categorisation used for a group of countries comprising Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. France intervened to help push them out in 2013, but the militants have since regrouped and spread across the Sahel and further south towards coastal West African states.
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