A video released by al-Qaeda features a militant with a British accent claiming responsibility for kidnapping Swiss nun Beatrice Stockly in Mali. She was taken on 7 January when armed militants surrounded her home in Timbuktu. Beatrice is accused of ‘declaring war against Islam’. A man with a British accent said, ‘We, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, declare our responsibility for the kidnapping of this Christianising kaffir Beatrice Stockly, who by her work drove out many from the fold of Islam by seducing them with crumbs of this worldly life.’ The sister was previously kidnapped in 2012 but broke her conditions of release by refusing to stop preaching the gospel. Beatrice appears in the video wearing a hijab and next to a flag. The group also claimed responsibility for the terror attacks two weeks ago on a hotel and restaurant in Burkina Faso when thirty people were killed.