North Africa: Abductions Spike in Sahel

Heightened efforts in recent days to free several Tunisian hostages in Libya highlight a growing security problem for the Sahel-Sahara zone.

From the hiker beheaded in Algeria to the Tunisian journalists missing for months in Libya, kidnappings are becoming commonplace in the Maghreb.

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