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4 days agoNigerian troops held in Burkina Faso after unfriendly' emergency landing
In a statement on Monday evening, the breakaway Alliance of Sahel States (AES), of which Burkina Faso is a member alongside Mali and Niger, said the C-130 transport aircraft had made an emergency landing in Bobo Dioulasso. In the statement, Assimi Goita, the Malian junta president and leader of the AES, called the landing an unfriendly act carried out in defiance of international law. He directed the authorities in the member countries to act to neutralise any aircraft that would violate the confederal space in future.
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