The four Moroccan truckers were found safe and sound. They are currently at the Moroccan embassy in Niamey, accompanied by a Burkinabé driver and another Togolese. These Moroccans were on board three trucks and had left Casablanca bound for Niger with a cargo of electrical equipment. As they arrived near the border between Burkina Faso and Niger, they reportedly refused to follow local security instructions. Afterwards, their disappearance was reported.
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The trace of these men “was lost between Dori, in Burkina Faso, and Téra, in Niger,” reports the Moroccan embassy in Ouagadougou. These are sensitive areas plagued by attacks by jihadist groups for several years. The convoy “took a route which crosses a very high risk zone, where terrorist cells and armed groups known for their regular acts of looting targeting road transporters” are active, a diplomatic source assured Parliamentarian.
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-Moroccan diplomacy then set up a crisis unit within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, which worked
in close collaboration with the Moroccan embassies in Burkina Faso and Niger, as well as with the authorities of the two countries, to find the missing truckers.
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