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                   Swiss Woman Abducted for 2nd Time in Mali

   by VOA News

   A Swiss woman living in northern Mali has been kidnapped from her home
   for the second time in four years.

   Residents and officials in Timbuktu say gunmen entered the home of
   Beatrice Stockly Friday morning and took her away.  There was no
   immediate claim of responsibility.

   Switzerland's Foreign Ministry said it was aware of a "suspected
   kidnapping" of a Swiss national in Mali but did not provide further
   details.

   Stockly, a woman in her 40s who is a Christian missionary, was also
   abducted by Islamist militants in April 2012 and released about 10 days
   later.

   Islamist groups were taking over northern Mali at that time following a
   military coup in the capital, Bamako.  French-led forces ousted them
   the following year but the militants remain active.

   Dozens of Westerners were kidnapped by miltant groups in West and North
   Africa between 2008 and 2013.  Most have been released, but two
   Westerners kidnapped in northern Mali in 2011 are still being held by
   al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

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