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Burkina Faso has freed 11 Nigerian soldiers detained after making an emergency landing on Burkinabe territory, after Nigeria sent an envoy to apologise for violating the junta-ruled country's airspace, officials said Thursday.
The crew of a Nigerian Air Force C-130 made what the military said was a "precautionary landing" in the Burkinabe city of Bobo-Dioulasso on December 8 due to a technical problem -- a day after Nigerian fighter jets helped thwart a coup attempt in neighbouring Benin, stoking regional tension.
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