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Burkina Faso unrest: Dozens of kidnapped women freed
State TV showed pictures of the rescued women and children on Friday evening Security forces in Burkina Faso have rescued 66 women and children after they were kidnapped by suspected militant ...
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Burkina Faso bans colonial wigs in courts to embrace cultural identity
Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré has banned the use of British and French colonial-style wigs by judges, marking a ...
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Burkina Faso army frees 62 abducted women, four children
Soldiers rescued a group of 62 women and four babies abducted by suspected jihadis last week in northern Burkina Faso, state television and a security source said Friday. The news came just hours ...
They fled from extremists. Now the government in Burkina Faso tries to hide their existence
Their loved ones were slaughtered by extremists or government-affiliated fighters. Their villages were attacked, their homes ...
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Security Strategy of Recruiting Cheap Militiamen Backfires in Africa
Image Displaced women drawing water from a well at the Niornigue camp. Because most of the Qaeda-affiliated insurgents waging a war in Burkina Faso are from the Fulani ethnic group, Fulani ...