The Canadian who was abducted by strangers in Burkina Faso in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday has been found dead. That is what the Burkinese Ministry of Security says. The kidnapping did not take place...
Terrorists opened fire at the French embassy in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. This was reported by the French ambassador in the West African country.
The commotion about images of migrants who would be auctioned as slaves in Libya is increasing. Burkina Faso has now recalled his ambassador to the North African country for consultations.
In an attack on a restaurant in Burkina Faso, seventeen people were killed. Another eight people were injured. Armed men opened the fire at the Turkish restaurant Aziz Istanbul in the capital Ouagadougou on Sunday.
Friday is a baby born on a Turkish Airlines flight from Conakry to Ouagadougou. That has let the airline know. A woman who was 28 weeks pregnant, was given shortly after takeoff from Guinea contractions.
The authorities in Burkina Faso have banned an annual election for women with large buttocks. According to the government in Ouagadougou is the event sexist.
Pope Francis on Sunday to keep all refugees in the world evoked hope and not lose the joy of living. The Catholic prelate said before the Angelus prayer, which seven people and refugees from thirty countries had gathered in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
The death toll from the hostage Saturday in a hotel and restaurant in Burkina Faso has risen to 28. More than fifty people were seriously injured by the hostage crisis in the capital Ouagadougou, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of Burkina Faso Sunday.
The death toll after the hostage taking occurred in an hotel in Burkina Faso to 27. That's the French ambassador to the West African country reported via Twitter.
The death toll after the hostage crisis in Burkina Faso stands at 23. That President Kaboré said Saturday. The number may still rise. Among the dead are people from eighteen countries.
Two Austrians, a doctor and his wife, kidnapped Saturday in northern Burkina Faso.
Security forces have Saturday put an end to a hostage in a hotel in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso. 126 hostages were released, 33 of them were injured. Around twenty people have been slain.
French President François Hollande, the attack in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, Saturday condemned. He spoke of a,, cowardly attack 'and his Burkinabe colleague Roch Marc Kaboré offered all assistance, including military.
Security forces have Saturday 33 hostages freed from a hotel in Burkina Faso. That the Ministry of Communications said. Among the released Visitors to the hotel is also a minister.
At a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso Friday shots and explosions heard. According to police and witnesses were security forces are fighting with suspected Islamist fighters outside the Splendid hotel in the business district of the city.
Justice in Burkina Faso is nearly three decades after the assassination of President Thomas Sankara finally hunt for the perpetrators. Against the main suspect is now issued an international arrest warrant: former President Blaise Compaoré.
In elections in Burkina Faso Roch Marc Kaboré elected the new president of the African country. He is the successor of Blaise Compaoré, who resigned in October last year and fled because of mass protests.
