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ESPN
April 4, 2018
His father hails from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso in West Africa. He met Sanon's mother while studying in Ukraine. Sanon was born in October 1999 and took up basketball around age 7 after watching his older brother play in their hometown of Donetsk, a Russian border town which seceded from UkraineÃâà...
Sight Magazine
April 2, 2018
But escalating violence will make it difficult for aid agencies to help in the remote area about 250 kilometres north of capital Ouagadougou, the Red Cross and the United Nations said. "There is no optimistic scenario," Christian Munezero, head of mission for the International Committee of the Red Cross,Ãâà...
Eyewitness News
March 31, 2018
But escalating violence will make it difficult for aid agencies to help in the remote area about 250 kilometres north of capital Ouagadougou, the Red Cross and the United Nations said. “There is no optimistic scenario,” Christian Munezero, head of mission for the International Committee of the Red CrossÃâà...
Independent Online
March 15, 2018
Jihadists linked to al Qaeda killed eight people during an attack on the French embassy and the army headquarters in the capital Ouagadougou this month, the third major attack there in just over two years. The agricultural economy is expected to grow 6 percent this year, down from 6.5 percent in 2017, butÃâà...
Intelligence Online
March 14, 2018
Although the Al Qaeda affiliate Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa Al Muslimin - the "Islamic and Muslim Support Group" - claimed responsibility for the attack, the investigation by the Ouagadougou prosecutor is probing the possible involvement by people in Burkina Faso's military apparatus. Investigators will try toÃâà...
Morocco World News
March 10, 2018
Rabat – Burkinabe authorities expressed their gratitude to Morocco for its solidarity following the double terrorist attacks that hit Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on March 2. Last week's deadly attacks on army headquarters and the French Embassy claimed the lives eight Burkinabe soldiers, while 61Ãâà...
Yahoo News
March 4, 2018
Residents of Ouagadougou say they fear fresh attacks, after the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), a jihadist group allied to al-Qaeda, on Saturday claimed responsibility for attacking the Burkinabe capital. Eight armed forces personnel were killed in the fighting in the West African nation on FridayÃâà...
BusinessGhana
March 4, 2018
Gunmen have launched twin attacks in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, against the French embassy and army headquarters. Eight security personnel and eight attackers were killed in the fighting while 80 people including civilians, were wounded, officials say. French Foreign Minister Jean-YvesÃâà...
africanews
March 3, 2018
Inhabitants of Ouagadougou are still to recover from shock after militants carried out simultaneous attacks on Friday morning on the military headquarters of Burkina Faso and the French Embassy in Ouagadougou. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. According to Reuters, Attackers in Burkina Faso'sÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 3, 2018
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Armed assailants attacked several targets in Burkina Faso's capital on Friday, including the army headquarters and ... given that French President Emmanuel Macron chose to outline his Africa strategy, including the fight against militants, in November in Ouagadougou.
WHTC
March 2, 2018
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Attackers in Burkina Faso's capital killed eight people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that France's foreign minister said was likely carried out by "terrorist groups". West Africa's arid Sahel region is suffering aÃâà...
BBC News
March 2, 2018
Gunmen have launched twin attacks in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, against the French embassy and army headquarters. Eight security personnel and eight attackers were killed in the fighting while 80 people including civilians, were wounded, officials say. French Foreign Minister Jean-YvesÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 18, 2018
OUAGADOUGOU – West Africa's extremist threat has moved into a new part of the vast Sahel region, with a previously calm area of Burkina Faso facing the kinds of assaults that have forced thousands elsewhere to flee over the past year. Last week a police station was attacked by about 10 people in theÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, in a statement released on Saturday, has condemned the attacks on the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou as “cowardly and barbaric” and said they only serve to strengthen the determination of the G5 Sahel to tackle terrorism.President Issoufou who is the currentÃâà...
Africa Times
December 31, 1999
The al Qaeda-affiliated militant group JNIM (Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims) has claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks in Ouagadougou, in a statement released to a Mauritanian media outlet. The message to Al Akhbar said the separate but simultaneous attacks on Burkina Faso's militaryÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
December 31, 1999
TWO gendarmerie personnel were killed when Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militants attacked the French embassy in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on 2 March, Al-Jazeera and Reuters reported. Four militants were killed in retaliatory fire. Simultaneously, militants detonated a suicideÃâà...
