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News24
February 5, 2018
Two Burkinabe policemen were shot dead last Monday in Baraboule, a northern town, bordering Mali. In December 2016, an attack on a battalion of anti-terrorist forces stationed in Nassoumbou, near the Malian border, killed twelve people. The attack, the most lethal against the Burkinabe army, shockedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2017
The Monday night attacks in Baraboule and Tongomayel injured at least one woman as assailants attacked several official buildings. They set fire to the police station in Tongomayel and shot at the police station, city hall and homes of local officials in Baraboule before retreating toward the border with Mali.
NEWS.com.au
February 8, 2016
The Burkina government had said the pair were kidnapped in Baraboule, near the country's borders with both Niger and Mali. The kidnapping prompted an outpouring of support, with the people of Djibo turning to Facebook to plead for the couple's release and hundreds of students with placards readingÃâà...
ABC Online
January 18, 2016
The family of two Australians kidnapped by extremists in Burkina Faso have pleaded for their release as they express gratitude for messages of support from Australia and internationally. Surgeon Ken Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were kidnapped in Baraboule, near the West African country's borders withÃâà...
The Straits Times
January 18, 2016
The Burkinabe authorities have given differing tolls for the number of foreigners killed - either 14 or 15, depending on the source. Highlighting the fragile security situation, an elderly Australian couple were kidnapped on Friday in Burkina Faso's northern Baraboule region, near the border with Niger andÃâà...
ABC Online
January 16, 2016
The Burkina Government said they were kidnapped in Baraboule, and a Malian Islamist group said the couple were in the hands of Al Qaeda-linked jihadists. Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said the couple in their 80s had lived in Djibo, near Baraboule, since 1972. News of theirÃâà...
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