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One of the two former French hostages released in northern Burkina Faso, Laurent Lassimouillas, pays tribute to the French soldiers killed in a rescue operation at the Presidential Palace of Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou. SOUNDBITE
Two French soldiers, Cédric de Pierrepont and Alain Bertoncello, are killed during a "complex" raid in which four hostages are freed by special forces in Burkina Faso. Both soldiers were part of the French navy's prestigious Hubert commando. PHOTO of the two French soldiers
On the base of the GIGN, the gendarmerie's elite tactical unit, in Versailles-Satory, near Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour to Major Arnaud Blanc, an elite French gendarme who was killed in French Guiana, an overseas territory of France in South America, while taking part in an operation to combat illegal gold mining. IMAGES
The funeral procession of three French soldiers killed in Mali passes over the Alexandre-III bridge, in front of Parisians who have come to pay tribute to them, before a ceremony at the Invalides. The three soldiers were killed on 28 December in an attack claimed by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), affiliated to al-Qaeda. Two other soldiers, including a woman, were killed shortly afterwards, on 2 January, in similar circumstances. IMAGES
In the barracks of the 1st regiment of parachute hussars of Tarbes, France's minister for the armed forces, Florence Parly, presides over a national tribute to the two French soldiers who were killed Saturday in Mali. IMAGES
Ivory Coast (South Africa), 2 Jul, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Legnan Koula).- The Ivory Coast is holding a ceremony, presided over by Head of State Alassane Ouattara, to pay tribute to the fourteen soldiers killed by a group of armed individuals in a mixed gendarmerie of the Armed Forces in Kafolo, Sikolo Sub-prefecture, in the northeast of Ivory Coast. FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE HELD IN IVORY COAST TO THE 14 SOLDIERS KILLED.
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