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The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
Parisians pay tribute to the two soldiers killed during a raid to rescue four hostages in Burkina Faso, as the funeral procession passes by the Pont Alexandre III bridge ahead of a ceremony at the Invalides led by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
Images outside a ranch in central Mexico where at least 12 people were killed and another dozen were wounded in an attack on a pre-Christmas party, authorities in the state of Guanajuato said. IMAGES
Madrid, Apr 30 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ángel Herrera) The Armed Forces plane in charge of repatriating the bodies of the two Spanish journalists murdered in Burkina Faso arrived on Friday at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base (Madrid ) where their families and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Arancha González Laya and Margarita Robles, were waiting for them.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL.
The bodies of two Spanish journalists and an Irish wildlife activist killed during an anti-poaching patrol in eastern Burkina Faso arrive in Spain after being repatriated aboard a military plane. Journalists David Beriain and Roberto Fraile were accompanying Irish ONG chief Rory Young on the patrol in the Arly National Park on Monday 26 April when they were attacked, Young's Chengeta Wildlife group said, calling the assailants "terrorists". IMAGES
Ouagadougou, Nov 22 (EFE) .- Burkina Faso held calm presidential elections Sunday, despite the threat of jihadist terrorism in the West African country, where outgoing president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is running for re-election and the opposition has warned of possible fraud in the elections.(Camera: LEGNAN KOULA) SHOT LIST: PEOPLE VOTING IN OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
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