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Security forces launch an assault to recapture a hotel and hostages seized in an attack by Islamic militants in Burkina Faso which left 20 dead. Julie Noce reports.
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
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
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
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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