Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion ...

A terrorist attack by an Islamic militant group has left hundreds of civilians dead in the town of Barsalogho, less than a ...

Jihadist groups have escalated their attacks on civilians, especially Christians, in recent months, reports the Human Rights ...

Closures have impacted 2.8 million students, who have thereby also been rendered vulnerable to risks beyond lack of education ...

She said it took three days for the survivors, mostly women and children, to collect the bodies ... was completely wiped out, she said. Burkina Faso's ruling junta has not said how many people ...

Women and children were among those killed on Saturday. Barsalogho lies near the town of Kaya, a strategic point in north-central Burkina Faso that houses the last standing military force between ...

“We see men, women and children laying inside the trenches ... Haque noted that the Burkina Faso army knew on Friday that an attack was going to happen and called on the population to dig ...

Civilians are among the dozens of people killed in an attack by militants in Burkina Faso, local and security ... The assailants targeted “women, children, elderly, men, making no distinction ...

Children gather in a classroom at school in the village of Dori, Burkina Faso, Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. More than half of the displaced by growing violence between Islamic extremists and security ...

More than 1,000 churches, public Christian properties, houses, shops and businesses have been attacked, damaged, bombed, looted, destroyed, burned down, closed or confiscated for faith-related reasons ...