WEST AFRICA: West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official has said that’s just "a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity." Omar Touray told
Rome: Two UN agencies warned Monday of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
OUAGADOUGOU: Scores of young Burkinabe Muslims and Christians gathered in Ouagadougou’s public square as the sun set to breakfast together, promoting religious tolerance during Ramadan and Lent as Burkina Faso grapples with a violent insurgency. Organized by a local interfaith youth group, the event saw Muslims
Ouagadougou: 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. The mass kidnapping was unprecedented in Burkina Faso, which is facing a violent terrorist insurgency that spread from neighbouring Mali