Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger signed a mutual defense pact over the weekend, pledging to help each other against armed rebellions and external aggression in the wake of coups in each of the three countries, Al Jazeera reported. Known as the Alliance of Sahel States, the...
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Fighting between government forces and insurgents has closed nearly a quarter of all schools in Burkina Faso, according to a new report warning about the looming education crisis in Africa’s restive Sahel region, the Guardian reported Thursday. The report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and...
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Security forces in Burkina Faso recently murdered a 16-year-old boy and others in Ouahigouya, a regional capital of the landlocked West African country. In a chilling report, the Associated Press detailed the teenage boy’s gruesome murder in the street, citing an 83-second video. Such episodes could...
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Islamist militants kidnapped around 50 women in northern Burkina Faso, the government confirmed Monday, marking the first mass kidnapping in the West African nation as it continues to fight a years-long jihadist insurgency, Reuters reported. Officials said armed men kidnapped the women in two different locations...
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Protesters took to the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, recently to wave Russian flags and condemn alleged meddling by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the impoverished, landlocked West African country’s former colonial overseer, France. The demonstration occurred a few...
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Burkinabe army officers launched a coup against the country’s military junta over the weekend, a move that could further destabilize the security situation in the West African country amid an ongoing jihadist insurgency, the Associated Press reported. On Friday, a group of soldiers appeared on state...
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A Burkinabe military court sentenced former President Blaise Compaore to life in prison Wednesday over his role in the 1987 murder of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, France 24 reported. The court tried the former president in absentia on the charges of attacking state security,...
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