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Kidnapping for Ransom in Mali
How many people are kidnapped every year for ransom? Because it doesn't seem like the kind of thing we hear a lot about, but maybe that's by design as well. So they're probably tens of thousands of people who get kidnapped each year. Most of them we don't hear about, because it's part of a local economy. Kidnap somebody to get the ear of a politician. You kidnap somebody to back up an extortion demand. That kind of local and local kidnapping we mostly don't hearing about. What i was interested in were the transnational kidnaps. And we might hear about a few dozen of them, but they're probably a few hundred every year. Well,