Burkina Faso: released
On 18 January extremist Muslim terrorists raided the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, leaving 29 people dead including US missionary, Michael James Riddering.
Telegraph
That same weekend an elderly Australian couple, Ken and Jocelyn Elliott, living in the North of the country were kidnapped by an Al-Qaeda linked terror group.
