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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said on Friday. The mass…

The mass kidnapping is the first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighboring Mali in 2015 despite expensive international military efforts to quell it. While Westerners and locals are sometimes caught,…

An investigation has been opened into the murders that were discovered on December 30 and 31, prosecutors said in a statement that gave no details about the possible perpetrators or the motive for the attacks. One resident of…

Frustrations over the government's inability to quell an Islamist insurgency spurred two military coups in Burkina Faso in 2022. Both previous and current juntas have made efforts to strengthen security, but Islamist attacks have…