Al Jazeera
Dec 16, 2020
What next for conflict-hit Burkina Faso after Kabore re-election?
Could Burkinabe president’s second term see a new approach to security or could spiraling violence trigger civil unrest? By Henry Wilkins...
Genocide Watch
Aug 10, 2020
Genocide Emergency: Burkina Faso
Since 2016, three armed Islamist groups, the Group for Support of Muslims (JNIM), the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), and...
Al Jazeera
Aug 7, 2020
Gunmen kill more than a dozen in attack in eastern Burkina Faso
Unidentified gunmen have killed about 20 people in an attack on a cattle market in eastern Burkina Faso, the government said in a...
Al Jazeera
Jul 27, 2020
Caught between climate crisis and armed violence in Burkina Faso
Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso - Growing up in a community of farmers in northern Burkina Faso, KI, who prefers that his full name not be used...
Reuters
Jul 17, 2020
Villagers killed in central Mali as mediators seek to restore stability
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Armed men killed at least 12 villagers in central Mali, local officials said on Thursday, while in the capital Bamako...
The Guardian
Jul 13, 2020
'Guardians of the bush': brutal vigilantes police Burkina Faso
A rifle hangs in the corner, refuse bags of seized cannabis strewn in the dirt at the men’s feet. Heavy chains have been fixed to the...
Associated Press 1
Jul 9, 2020
Burkina Faso's volunteer fighters are no match for jihadists
KONGOUSSI, Burkina Faso (AP) — Armed only with a knife, Issa Tamboure was no match for gun-wielding jihadists who attacked his village in...
New York Times 1
Jul 8, 2020
Over 180 Bodies Found Dumped in Burkina Faso Town, Report Says
DAKAR, Senegal — The bodies of at least 180 men thought to have been killed by security forces have been found dumped in fields, by...
The New Humanitarian
Jul 7, 2020
In Burkina Faso, violence and COVID-19 push children out of school and into harm's way
BOUCLE DU MOUHOUN REGION, Burkina Faso When 13-year-old Martine left her village in northern Burkina Faso for a safer town last year, she...
Human Rights Watch
Jul 2, 2020
Sahel: Atrocities by the security forces are fueling recruitment by armed Islamists
Since at least 2015, Islamist armed attacks on villages, markets, restaurants, convoys and churches in West Africa’s Sahel region have...
United Nations
Jun 26, 2020
580 killed in central Mali so far in 2020 as security worsens - Bachelet
580 civilians have been killed so far this year in central Mali, as a deteriorating security situation and widespread impunity undermine...
Al Jazeera
Jun 26, 2020
Challenges ahead as UN set to extend 'most dangerous' mission
The United Nations Security Council is expected next week to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA. Often dubbed...
