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Africa: Global Terrorist Killings in 2023 - Burkina Faso Suffers in First Place
allAfrica, 1 March 2024
The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest report on the state of terrorism around the world. The 2023 report, dubbed the Global Terrorism Index, shows a… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Prosecutor Says Around 170 'Executed' in Attacks On Villages
RFI, 3 March 2024
Around 170 people were "executed" in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor said in a statement on Sunday. Read more »
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West Africa: Germany Aims to Confront Extremism in Sahel Region
DW, 3 March 2024
On her visit to Burkina Faso, German Development Minister Svenja Schulze wants to show a willingness to speak with the ruling military junta. In Benin, she'll support Germany's… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Women and Children Among 170 'Executed' People - Witnesses
DW, 3 March 2024
Burkina Faso has been battling Islamist insurgent groups for several years. A number of other deadly attacks took place around the country on the same day. Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Statement On the Escalation of Violence Against Civilians in Burkina Faso
State Department, 1 March 2024
The United States is gravely concerned by the rise in violence against civilians in northern and eastern Burkina Faso in late February. Read more »
World Terrorist Killings in 2023 - Burkina Faso in First Position
A new report on global terrorism shows a dramatic rise in the number of terrorism-related deaths while revealing that the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more deaths from terrorism than the much-publicized Middle East. AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana spoke with one of the report's authors, Thom Morgan about Burkina Faso accounting for almost a quarter of all deaths from terrorism worldwide, and the Sahel region seeing almost half of global terrorist killings.
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West Africa: Sahel - the Fight Against Terrorism, the Waste
Centre 4s, 27 February 2024
A multitude of actors are fighting terrorism in the Sahel: the concerned countries armies with the help of civilian auxiliaries and international partners. From 2012 to now, the… Read more »
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West Africa: Why We Lifted Sanctions On Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso - Ecowas
Premium Times, 25 February 2024
"West African single identity and regional integration and inclusion project is another programme that the three countries benefit from." Read more »
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Africa: Has Concern for Sahel Violence Been Pushed Out By Sudan, Ukraine?
Centre 4s, 17 February 2024
Not long ago, one of the international community's serious concerns, Sahel terrorist violence, is today unnoticeable on its agenda. Far behind the war in Ukraine and that in Sudan… Read more »
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Africa: Wagner Group Is Now Africa Corps. What This Means for Russia's Operations On the Continent
The Conversation Africa, 14 February 2024
In August 2023, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died after his private jet crashed about an hour after taking off in Moscow. He had been Russia's pointman in Africa since the… Read more »
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West Africa: Editorial - Ecowas and the Burden of the Sahelian Contagion
Premium Times, 12 February 2024
PREMIUM TIMES believes that the message in all of this for ECOWAS is: good governance and an economy that works for all are the guardrails of any democracy. Read more »
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Africa: After Wagner, Russia Makes New Military Plans in Africa
DW, 9 February 2024
The Wagner Group used to serve Russia's interests in Africa -- unofficially. But with Wagner's collapse, Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a new Africa Corps, with… Read more »
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The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has called on African leaders to root out terrorism and violent extremism on the continent. According to Guterres, in just a ... Read more »
