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Burkina Faso's government believes that Luca Tacchetto (L) and Edith Blais are alive but no longer in the country. [AFP]
An Italian man and his Canadian companion abducted last December in Burkina Faso are alive but may have been moved to another country, a Burkinabe government spokesman said.
An Italian missionary abducted last September in Niger meanwhile may since have been briefly held in Burkina Faso, the spokesman added.
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