Burkina Faso minister says kidnapped couple are Australian

Burkina Faso's Communications Minister Remi Dandjinou said today that a couple abducted in the country's north are Australian nationals, correcting an interior ministry statement earlier that they were Austrian.
The couple were kidnapped in Baraboule, near the west African country's borders with Niger and Mali. It is not yet known whether they were living in Burkina Faso or were there as tourists.