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2/19/2023 9:53:22 PM
The African Union insisted on Sunday it had a "zero tolerance" policy towards unconstitutional change as it maintained its suspension of four military-ruled countries.
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2/19/2023 8:03:47 PM
Burkina Faso's army announced on Sunday that operations by the French army in the jihadist-hit West African state were officially over.
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2/8/2023 8:37:25 PM
Three civilians and three volunteers with the security forces were killed Wednesday when suspected jihadists attacked a village in central-eastern Burkina Faso, a local source said.
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Africa
2/4/2023 2:50:39 PM
Burkina Faso's military leader said Friday that there was no break in diplomatic relations with France, which he asked to withdraw its forces, and denied Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country.
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1/31/2023 2:46:22 PM
Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday.
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1/26/2023 1:29:45 PM
The French foreign ministry said Thursday it is recalling its ambassador to Burkina Faso for consultations, one day after Paris decided to withdraw troops from the West African country following a demand by its military rulers.
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Africa
1/25/2023 10:27:20 PM
France's foreign ministry said Wednesday that French troops deployed to fight extremists in Burkina Faso will withdraw within a month following a demand by the country's military rulers, which came after a similar move from neighboring Mali.
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Africa
1/22/2023 9:04:36 PM
President on Sunday said Paris was awaiting clarifications from Burkina Faso after the African country's military regime said it wants French troops to leave within a month.
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Africa
1/21/2023 2:20:00 PM
Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
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1/7/2023 9:49:35 PM
The head of the United Nations human rights office called Saturday for a prompt, transparent investigation into the deaths of at least 28 people whose bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso last month.
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12/23/2022 7:16:47 PM
Burkina Faso has ordered the UN's coordinator in the country to leave by the end of the day, declaring her "persona non grata", the foreign ministry said Friday.
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Africa
10/30/2022 12:37:58 PM
Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso's eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation.
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War in Ukraine
10/9/2022 11:05:23 AM
France's prestigious Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards Saturday largely honoured reporting on the Ukraine conflict, with Associated Press and Burkina Faso newspaper Sidwaya among the recipients.
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Africa
10/8/2022 10:00:56 PM
Burkina Faso said on Saturday that a process to pick a transitional president to serve ahead of elections would be held next week, following a coup by disaffected military officers against a ruling junta.
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Africa
10/3/2022 2:24:06 PM
Regional mediators were headed to Burkina Faso on Monday in the wake of the West African country's second coup this year amid concern the latest power grab could further postpone elections and deepen the region's Islamic extremist violence.
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Africa
10/2/2022 8:28:48 PM
Burkina Faso's ousted coup leader has offered his resignation as long as his security and other conditions were met, and the new junta leader who overthrew him has accepted the deal, religious leaders mediating the West African nation's latest political crisis said Sunday.
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Africa
10/1/2022 9:27:03 PM
Gunshots rang out Saturday in Burkina Faso's capital and soldiers deployed in the streets as tensions lingered a day after military officers overthrew the man who had seized power in a coup only nine months earlier in the West African nation.
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Africa
10/1/2022 4:34:40 PM
Soldiers blocked main roads and gunfire was heard in the capital of Burkina Faso on Saturday, as world powers condemned the second coup this year in the deeply poor and restive West African country.
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Africa
10/1/2022 2:04:56 PM
The African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat Saturday condemned the "unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina Faso after military officers ousted junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
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Africa
10/1/2022 12:49:45 PM
Military officers have seized control of Burkina Faso, claiming to be restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they overthrew a junta leader who had also come to power in a coup at the start of this year.
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