Bazega: Elements of the Kayao district police station in the Bazega province (Nazinon region) seized a child trafficking network in the area on Monday, November 17, thanks to the collaboration and vigilance of the population, AIB has learned. Officers from the district police station in the commune of Kayao in the province of Bazega have dismantled a network trafficking children aged between 11 and 15 years old.

According to Burkina Information Agency, an alert was issued on Friday, November 14, 2025, for the disappearance of 7 students aged 11 to 15, after more than 3 days of unsuccessful searches in several localities. While the parents were searching for their children in other areas, these seven children were being held at a farm in Kayao. They were being psychologically held captive there, with their captors promising them a better life after their time at an artisanal gold mining site.

The report indicates that the traffickers promised each child a "SATRIA" motorcycle and one million CFA francs. Their recruitment method involved targeting children and identifying their schools in order to lure them in, the sources explained. These children were then gathered on a school day, without the knowledge of their teachers or parents, at the farm, awaiting their removal from the area to gold mining sites.

Early in the morning of Monday, November 17, 2025, as the kidnappers were trying to reach the Kokologo bus station with the children, they were apprehended in a village bordering the commune of Kokologo (Boulkiemde province) and taken to the Kayao district police station thanks to the vigilance of the population. The kidnappers caught in the net are now languishing in the cells of the Ouagadougou prison, and the children have been returned to their parents.