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Bamako Mali’s government said on Thursday that leading opposition figure Soumaila Cisse had been kidnapped in West African nation’s volatile centre, just days before a long-delayed parliamentary poll.
In an unprecedented first for a Malian politician of his rank, unidentified gunmen kidnapped Cisse and his team on Wednesday afternoon, his party said.
The Union for the Republic and Democracy (URD) party sounded the alarm later on Wednesday after Cisse failed to turn up to an appointment and was no longer answering his phone.
The circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear, but the government and URD members have said it was a kidnapping. On Thursday morning, URD spokesman Demba Traore told reporters that Cisse was travelling with a group of 12 people on two jeeps when unidentified gunmen took them. (AFP)
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