While the search in Burkina Faso continues to find the four Moroccan truck drivers reported missing since Saturday, January 18, 2025, a Burkinabe security source affirms to RFI that they have been abducted by an armed group not yet identified. These drivers were in the north-east of the country, on the Dori road connecting Burkina Faso and its neighbour Niger. It was on the Dori road leading to the city of Téra, on the Niger side, that Burkinabe security services lost track of the four Moroccan drivers driving three trucks carrying “infrastructure equipment”. ” They then decided to take the road alone ” souligne cette même source qui soutient à RFI que les Marocains ont été ” enlevés par un groupe armé ou terroriste “.. According to AFP, the Embassy of the Cherifian Kingdom in Burkina Faso confirms that the four drivers ” have taken a route that crosses a zone à très haut risque where terrorist cells and armed groups are known for their acts of regular looting aimed at transporteurs “. Regularly, groups affiliated to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) operate in this zone between Burkina Faso and Niger. “To borrow the axe Dori-Téra sans escorte constitutes en soir un aventurisme” a déploré la même source anonyme diplomatique marocaine, toujours citée par l’AFP. “It is not possible for a Moroccan citizen to fly without an escort to the Dori-Téra airport, as it is not possible for a Moroccan citizen to fly without an escort”.
Burkina Faso: Four Moroccan truck drivers have been kidnapped by an armed group
