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  • A Malian abbot remains captive in the country's centre, Catholic officials said Thursday, contradicting reports that he had been freed along with four laypeople. A senior Church official from the town of Mopti and the regional governor had said Wednesday that all five had been released after two days in captivity. The group disappeared on Monday while travelling from the mostly Catholic area of Segue in central Mali to the funeral of another abbot in the town of San. The four laypeople "arrived yesterday in Segue but without the priest and his vehicle," Abbot Fernand Coulibaly, a Church spokesman, told AFP Thursday. Kizito Togo of the Mopti parish confirmed that Abbot Leon Douyon remains in captivity. Kidnappings are common in the former French colony, which has been struggling to quell a brutal jihadist insurgency that first emerged in 2012 and has since spilled over into Burkina Faso and Niger. Central Mali is a particular hotspot for jihadist, inter-ethnic or financially motivated violence that afflicts the wider Sahel region. But it is rare for Catholics -- a minority of around four percent in the majority-Muslim nation of 19 million -- to be kidnapped. It remains unclear who carried out the abductions and why. French journalist Olivier Dubois, abducted in April, is believed to be in the hands of the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the biggest jihadist alliance in the Sahel. sd-lal/gd/ach
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  • Catholic abbot not freed in Mali as reported: officials
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