Suspected jihadists kidnap 50 women in Burkina Faso

Many of the women had been picking fruit because there is nothing left to eat' as long-running insurgency hits food supplies

Suspected jihadists have abducted about 50 women in insurgency-wracked northern Burkina Faso, local officials and residents say.

Roughly 40 were seized around 12km (seven miles) south-east of Arbinda on Thursday and about 20 others were abducted on Friday to the north of the town, the sources said on condition of anonymity.