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Six Killed In Attack In Northern Burkina Faso

By Sahel Standard Magazine April 2, 2021 84 0

Six civilian members of an auxiliary force in Burkina Faso’s anti-jihadist campaign were killed in an ambush late Thursday in the north of the country, local and security sources told AFP. “Six were killed and another was wounded” in the attack at Dablo, an official with the Volunteers for the Defence of the Motherland (VDP) […]Continue Reading

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Burkina Faso Incumbent Kabore Wins Presidential Election

By Sahel Standard Magazine November 26, 2020 157 0

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won a second term after gaining an outright majority in the first round of elections, the country’s electoral board announced Thursday. “Mr Kabore… with 57.87 per cent of the vote, is provisionally elected president of (Burkina) Faso in the first round,” said Newton Ahmed Barry, head of […]Continue Reading

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UN to support Nigeria, Burkina Faso and others with $100 Million to Prevent Famine

By Sahel Standard Magazine November 19, 2020 224 0

The United Nations has announced that it will support Nigeria, Yemen, Afganistan, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the sum of $100 million to prevent possible famine, which it says is caused by insecurity, climate change, and poor economic environment. This was revealed by Mark Lowcock, Head of UN […]Continue Reading

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IS Claims Responsibility For Ambush That Killed 14 Burkina Faso’s Soldiers

By Sahel Standard Magazine November 15, 2020 559 0

The Islamic State on Saturday said it had staged a midweek ambush which killed 14 soldiers in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso ahead of elections this month. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara said it carried out the raid, one of the worst on troops, in a message carried on its Amaq news outlet and carried […]Continue Reading

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Burkina Faso Insecurity in the Context of Expanding Insurgency

By sahelstandard01 December 31, 2019 477 0

While much attention has focused on Burkina’s north and, more recently, east, insecurity has been brewing in the country’s southwestern regions, bordering the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Ghana. In the aftermath of several high-profile attacks in the capital city of Ouagadougou between 2016 and 2018, events in the landlocked West African country of Burkina Faso […]Continue Reading