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Burkina Faso News
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In Burkina Faso, the military took control of the state broadcaster late Friday and announced a military coup to oust President-elect Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henry Sandogo Damiba.
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Fifty-nine civilians, six pro-government militiamen and 15 military police were killed in the attack.
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Death toll from the worst militant attack in Burkina Faso in recent years has risen to 132.
Armed assailants laid siege overnight to a village in the jihadist-plagued northeast.
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Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and Niger, has seen a regular target of attacks, which have left hundreds dead since the start of 2015 when the violence began to spread across the Sahel region.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is currently visiting Burkina Faso.
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Burkina Faso`s foreign minister said on Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Libya over a report that black African migrants were being auctioned as slaves there.
The "terrorist" attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso killed at least 18 people including eight foreigners and seven locals.
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A government statement described the latest deadly shooting as a "terrorist attack", while President Roch Marc Christian Kabore condemned it as "a despicable attack that has Ouagadougou in mourning."
Security forces in the Burkina Faso capital early Monday concluded an operation against suspected jihadist gunmen who launched a deadly attack on a restaurant, the communications minister announced.
Seventeen people have been killed and eight injured in a "terrorist attack" on a restaurant in Burkina Faso`s capital, said the government.
Elliott along with his wife Jocelyn, 76, an Australian humanitarian worker, were abducted in January 2015 by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists from Djibo, a dusty town near the border with Mali and Niger.
The party of Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won municipal elections seen as a key step in the country`s transition to democracy from the authoritarian rule of ousted strongman Blaise Compaore.
Canada announced Monday it will end air strikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and bring home its six fighter jets on February 22.
An elderly Australian woman kidnapped with her husband in Burkina Faso by a group affiliated to al Qaeda has been freed, neighbouring Niger`s President Mahamadou Issoufou said on Saturday.
A jihadist attack on a top Burkina Faso hotel was carried out by six gunmen, three of whom are still on the run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday.
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At least 29 people, including 10 foreigners, were killed in an Al-Qaeda attack on a top hotel in Burkina Faso, an unprecedented strike in the capital illustrating the expanding reach of regional jihadists.
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At least 26 people, many of them foreigners, were killed in an attack overnight on a top hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso, the latest country to be drawn into a regional jihadist battle against the West and its allies.
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Country's and French forces kill 4 extremists and free 126 people to end the siege by al Qaeda-linked militants.
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Burkina Faso terror attack: Two Indians among 126 rescued from restaurant; al Qaeda attackers killed
Two Indians are among 126 people freed from a restaurant in Burkina Faso that was taken under siege by al Qaeda linked gunmen who killed at least 23 people from 18 countries on Saturday.
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