Kidnapped Canadian found dead, Burkina Faso officials say

A Canadian kidnapped this week in a restive region of Burkina Faso has been found dead, a spokesman for the security ministry has said. Kirk Woodman was abducted after nightfall on Tuesday by a dozen gunmen at a mining site owned by the Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in the country’s north-east near the border with Niger, an area the government had said was under growing threat from armed jihadists.-- More...