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Ghana is supporting Burkina Faso to fight terrorism – Ambassador
Joy FM
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October 25, 2024
Ghana's Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Boniface Gambila Adagbila, has affirmed the country's commitment to aiding Burkina Faso in its fight against terrorism. His comments come in the wake of a Reuters report revealing that Islamist militants...
Prof Aning rubbishes report that terrorists from Burkina Faso use northern Ghana as base
Joy FM
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October 25, 2024
Security analyst, Prof Kwesi Aning has rubbished claims in a Reuters report alleging that Islamist militants from Burkina Faso are using northern Ghana as a base for logistical support. The Reuters report claims that insurgents have been crossing...
What Burkina Faso’s Tragic History Teaches Us
Journal of Democracy
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October 31, 2024
Ten years after the country’s revolution, the lessons for protecting a budding democracy and guarding against violent extremism are clear. By John Chin, Haleigh Bartos, and Aleksaundra Handrinos October 2024 This week marks the tenth anniversary...
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Violence spreads: hundreds killed in an armed attack in the village of Manni
Fides
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October 24, 2024
Ouagadougou – For some time now, Burkina Faso has been confronted with several violence attacks by armed groups. In recent months the situation seems to be out of control. According to what was reported to Fides last October 6, the village of...
Burkina Faso civilians pay ruling junta's anti-jihadist strategy with their lives
Le Monde
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The women dug the graves in Barsalogho on August 26. Just like the day before. "They're almost the only ones left in the village. Almost all the men have been killed or wounded," said a resident, who lost eight members of her family on Saturday,...
Data Shows Burkina Faso’s Security Continues to Deteriorate Post-Coup
Africa Defense Forum
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October 22, 2024
ADF STAFF New data is shedding light on how Burkina Faso’s security has deteriorated in the two years since the military took power in a coup. Burkina Faso is now the most terrorism-affected country in the world, according to the Global Terrorism...
'Terrorists burned everything, but not our faith,' say Burkina Faso Christians after massacre
Detroit Catholic
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October 22, 2024
(OSV News) -- In an early October massacre, at least 150 people, including many Christians, were killed in northeastern Burkina Faso's town of Manni, in what turned out to be a brutal terrorist rampage. Days after the massacre, Aid to the Church...
MSF temporarily suspends activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso
Doctors Without Borders
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October 21, 2024
Geneva – Faced with ongoing security challenges that threaten the ability to carry out activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend our humanitarian response in the city....
Médecins sans frontières (MSF) temporarily suspends activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso due to escalating insecurity
The Sunday News
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October 21, 2024
Faced with ongoing security challenges that threaten the ability to carry out activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend our humanitarian response in the city. This...
“Terrorists burned everything, but not our faith,” say Burkina Faso Christians after massacre
The Catholic Weekly
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October 22, 2024
A satellite image shows a newly built trench near Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, where hundreds of people were killed by suspected jihadists Aug. 24, 2024. In an early October massacre in northeastern Burkina Faso, at least 150 people, including many...
‘Terrorists burned everything, but not our faith,’ say Burkina Faso Christians after massacre
Catholic Review - Maryland
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October 21, 2024
In an early October massacre, at least 150 people, including many Christians, were killed in northeastern Burkina Faso’s town of Manni, in what turned out to be a brutal terrorist rampage. Days after the massacre, Aid to the Church in Need, a...
Novartis Gets Approval for First Malaria Drug for Babies
This Day
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July 10, 2025
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Novartis has received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and very young children, a process Nigeria was hugely involved in, a Reuters report said. Eight...
Harmattan hazards: How coastal west Africa can escape the Sahel’s fate
European Council on Foreign Relations
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July 10, 2025
Summary Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo, are under pressure from two threats: jihadists and putschists. In these west African coastal states, armed Islamist groups increasingly cross northern borders, wreaking havoc. Civilian governments are...
Islamic terrorists massacre 150 in Burkina Faso
Catholic News Agency
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October 19, 2024
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 19, 2024 / 08:00 am More than 150 people, including many Christians, have been massacred by Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso, local sources told the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). On Oct. 6, an...
Real and fake antidotes to Trump's latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
CADTM
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July 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base –...
Full list of 57 countries affected by 'highly contagious' infection as travel health warning issued
Chronicle Live
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February 26, 2025
A warning has been issued to travellers over a "highly contagious" infection that is affecting 57 countries, including the UK. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued level one Travel Health Notices (THNs) for measles. The...
NDC financier who brings galamseyers from Togo, Burkina Faso arrested - Dr Ayew Afriye
GhanaWeb
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October 21, 2024
The Member of Parliament for Effiduase-Asokore, Dr Nana Ayew Afriye, has alleged that a financier of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) who is knee-deep in the menace of illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) has been arrested....
All 57 countries with 'contagious virus outbreak' as CDC issues level one travel health notice
SurreyLive
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February 26, 2025
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued level one Travel Health Notices (THNs) for a "highly contagious virus outbreak." As of now, 57 countries are affected by the reported outbreak, and travellers and residents are urged...
Behind rising jihadist violence in Burkina Faso, a fragile govt & power vacuum in Sahel region
The Print
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October 14, 2024
New Delhi: A little less than two months ago on 24 August, Burkina Faso witnessed one of the deadliest single attacks in Africa in the past few decades when Islamist militants gunned down about 600 people within hours in Barsalogho town as they...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré channels Africa’s great freedom fighters— that’s why the West is afraid
The Voice
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July 4, 2025
ACROSS BURKINA Faso and way beyond, Captain Ibrahim Traoré has emerged as a powerful symbol of pan-African defiance. He’s also accused by critics in the West of being Russia’s latest proxy in Africa. This overly simplistic narrative, however, is...