Jihadis expand control to new Burkina Faso fronts
BANFORA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Florent Coulibaly, a soldier in Burkina Faso’s army, says he hasn't been sleeping well for the past few months as he is often roused at 3 a.m. to fight jihadi rebels.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Jihadis expand control to new Burkina Faso fronts
BANFORA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Florent Coulibaly, a soldier in Burkina Faso’s army, says he hasn't been sleeping well for the past few months as he is often roused at 3 a.m. to fight jihadi rebels.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Jihadis expand control to new Burkina Faso fronts
BANFORA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Florent Coulibaly, a soldier in Burkina Faso’s army, says he hasn't been sleeping well for the past few months as he is often roused at 3 a.m. to fight jihadi rebels.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Jihadis expand control to new Burkina Faso fronts
BANFORA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Florent Coulibaly, a soldier in Burkina Faso’s army, says he hasn't been sleeping well for the past few months as he is often roused at 3 a.m. to fight jihadi rebels.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso says at least 100 civilians killed in attack
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso says at least 100 civilians killed in attack
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso says at least 100 civilians killed in attack
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso says at least 100 civilians killed in attack
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Gunmen killed at least 100 people in a northern Burkina Faso village, the government said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest attack in years.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At least 20 dead, 600 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
At least 15 dead, 400 wounded in Equatorial Guinea blasts
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 400 others on Sunday, authorities said.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine
LEKUANGOLE, South Sudan (AP) — After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,'" she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine
LEKUANGOLE, South Sudan (AP) — After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. “They cried and cried and said, ‘Mom, we need food,'" she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
South Sudan's spy agency abuses prisoners, says rights group
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jabbing needles in prisoners' genitals, pouring melted plastic on their skin and hanging them upside down for long periods: These are tortures allegedly being perpetrated by South Sudan's National Security Service, according to an international human rights group.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
New report says part of South Sudan is in 'likely famine'
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Students in Burkina Faso fear extremists more than COVID-19
DORI, Burkina Faso (AP) — Balkissa Barro’s been waiting for months to go back to school, but now that she has, the 10-year-old fears classes might once again stop.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore re-elected
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — President Roch Marc Christian Kabore will serve another five years as Burkina Faso’s president, according to provisional results announced by the National Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso counts ballots; extremist threats affected vote
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Votes are being counted in Burkina Faso after Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections, where threats of extremist violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State prevented parts of the country from casting ballots.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso votes amid ongoing extremist violence, threats
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Sunday, as the country went to the polls for presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
American citizen killed in Burkina Faso, US State Dept says
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — An American citizen has been killed in the capital of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, according to the U.S. State Department.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Burkina Faso to vote amid escalating violence
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso will vote in presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, amid escalating extremist violence that’s killed more than 2,000 people this year and displaced some one million people from their homes.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
14 Burkina Faso soldiers killed by extremists in Sahel area
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Fourteen soldiers were killed and others were injured in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region, the government said.
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Attack on Burkina Faso mosque wounds 6, says government
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — An unknown assailant threw a flammable bottle into a mosque in Burkina Faso's capital, wounding six people, the government spokesman said Sunday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access
GAMPELA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access
GAMPELA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access
GAMPELA, Burkina Faso (AP) — The chain breaks here, in a tiny medical clinic in Burkina Faso that went nearly a year without a working refrigerator.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Tension mounts as Guinea awaits presidential poll results
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Tensions climb in Guinea as the West African country awaits results from last weekend’s presidential elections.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Extremist rebels attack UN peacekeepers in Mali; 1 killed
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A U.N. peacekeeper was killed in Mali and others injured in separate attacks in the north of the country, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations secretary-general, said in a statement.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Jihadist attacks increase in Burkina Faso's Sahel region
BOULOUNGA, Burkina Faso (AP) —
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