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Africa
7/13/2023 7:37:00 PM
Egypt have been handed a favorable draw in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers after being placed in Group A alongside Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Djibouti as they seek their fourth appearance in the World Cup.
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Sports
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Africa
6/18/2023 10:53:32 PM
Mali and Cape Verde secured their places in the next year's Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco with their wins in the qualifiers on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
6/7/2023 2:42:22 PM
Twenty-one people, most of them members of the security forces, have been killed in Burkina Faso in attacks by suspected jihadists, security sources said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
6/5/2023 10:33:53 AM
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data.
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Sports
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Egyptian Football
5/31/2023 7:30:37 PM
Egyptian Premier League side Pyramids FC announced on Wednesday that their Burkinabe midfielder, Ibrahim Blati Toure, has signed a three-year contract extension that will keep him at the club until the end of the 2025-26 season.
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World
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Africa
5/22/2023 2:22:29 PM
More than a dozen people, thought to be mostly shepherds, have been killed in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Monday.
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World
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Africa
5/19/2023 9:45:36 PM
At least 20 people were killed in a series of raids on villages in Burkina Faso's troubled north, security sources and local residents told AFP Friday.
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World
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International
5/3/2023 11:40:01 AM
More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year due to conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
4/28/2023 1:52:47 PM
A large number of Islamic extremists launched an attack on Burkina Faso's military in the country's east, killing 33 soldiers and wounding a dozen others, the army said Friday.
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World
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Africa
4/25/2023 7:37:44 PM
The accounts are horrific. Women killed while carrying babies on their backs, the wounded hunted down and villagers watching the execution of their neighbors, fearing they'd be next. These are some of the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by Burkina Faso's security forces in the north of the country, according to a statement Tuesday by locals from the village of Karma where the violence took place.
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World
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Africa
4/16/2023 6:27:10 PM
At least 34 defence volunteers and six soldiers died in a suspected jihadist attack in insurgency-hit northern Burkina Faso, the regional governorate said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
4/13/2023 11:34:25 PM
Burkina Faso's military junta declared Thursday a "general mobilization" to give the state "all necessary means" to combat a string of jihadist attacks since the start of this year.
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World
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Africa
4/9/2023 2:00:51 PM
At least 44 people were killed by Islamic extremists in multiple attacks in northern Burkina Faso, the government said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
3/27/2023 11:20:59 AM
Burkina Faso's ruling junta on Monday suspended all broadcasts by France 24 media in the country, after it aired an interview with the head of Al-Qaeda in North Africa.
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World
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Africa
3/17/2023 4:24:05 PM
Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday.
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World
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Africa
2/25/2023 2:10:48 PM
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing more than 70 soldiers, wounding dozens, and taking five hostages, in an ambush on a military convoy in northern Burkina Faso.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/25/2023 11:15:48 AM
Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in the West African nation of Burkina Faso amid soaring jihadi violence that’s killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people.
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World
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Africa
2/23/2023 6:47:57 PM
The late Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation.
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World
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Africa
2/21/2023 9:12:24 PM
Suspected jihadists killed at least 15 soldiers in troubled northern Burkina Faso, just three days after an ambush that claimed the lives of 51 troops, security sources said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
2/20/2023 10:02:52 PM
At least 51 soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, the army said on Monday, adding that 160 of the assailants died during counter-attacks.
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