Tag Archives: Burkina Faso

One soldier was killed on Monday evening when armed men attacked the northern Ivory Coast town of Tougbo, near the border with Burkina Faso, the army said on Tuesday. Ivorian troops were already deployed in the town and quickly pushed back the assailants. No civilians were killed, said the head …

Burkina Faso mourns as UN chief calls on countries to redouble efforts to fight ‘violent extremism and its unacceptable human toll’. Gunmen have killed at least 132 people in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, the government said, as the United Nations chief condemned “the heinous attack” and called on countries to …

The death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132, the government said on Saturday, after armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast. The attackers struck during the night on Friday, killing residents of the village of …

Armed groups displace some 17,500 people in Burkina Faso in recent days, UNHCR says, in an attempt to cause ‘mayhem’. More than 17,500 people in Burkina Faso have been forcefully displaced from their homes in the past 10 days due to a series of attacks by unidentified armed groups that …

No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the commune of Fada N’Gourma, around where the army is carrying out a search operation. Gunmen have stormed a cattle market and opened fire in an eastern Burkina Faso village, killing at least 20 people and injuring many others, a local government …

At least 15 people were killed following an attack on a convoy transporting traders in a town in northern Burkina Faso on Friday, the government said on Saturday. The attack, carried out by an unidentified group of assailants, left several others wounded. Many more were still unaccounted for, the government …

The al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorist groups have turned their guns on each other despite having previously cooperated in Africa’s Sahel region. Sporadic clashes between the two groups earlier this year have escalated into full-blown combat in countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso, AFP cited experts as saying in a …

African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation, an African Union official said on Thursday, as Nigeria stressed Africa’s dependence on a properly-funded World Health Organization (WHO)to help it fight the pandemic. Africa’s 54 countries have so far reported fewer than …

Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an assault on a village church in northern Burkina Faso, officials say. The regional governor said on Monday that the local pastor was targeted in the attack. A group of “armed terrorists” burst into the village of Pansi, in Yagha, a …

An attack in Burkina Faso has killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, in one of the deadliest assaults to hit the West African country in nearly five years of violence. Seven soldiers and 80 armed fighters were also killed in Tuesday’s double attack on a military base and …

At least 16 worshipers were killed and two others seriously injured as a mosque was attacked in the Western African state of Burkina Faso, the security sources said. A group of unidentified gunmen opened fire inside a mosque in the village of Salmossi in the northern province of Oudalan, according …

According to media reports, armed men seized a military base in central Mali, leaving at least 16 soldiers killed. Gunmen attacked and briefly seized a Malian army base, killing at least 16 soldiers and destroying five vehicles in central Mali’s Mopti region, according to officials. According to an eyewitness, a …