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A US citizen has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing two teenage girls while serving at the American embassy in Burkina Faso, the US Department of Justice has announced.
Fode Sitafa Mara, 41, of Maryland, was convicted following a two-week trial in October 2025 at a federal court in Maryland. On Wednesday, the court handed him a life sentence after a jury found him guilty of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, as well as attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and attempted obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors said the offences took place in 2022 and 2023 in Ouagadougou, where Mara was employed by the US embassy. The abuse occurred at...
