Jihadist groups target Christian clerics as well as Muslim ones they do not consider sufficiently radical.
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A security source said between 20 and 30 gunmen carried out the attack.
The new governors named at the weekly government meeting are mostly civilian administrators or officers in the armed forces.
It was the first attack on a church since jihadist violence erupted in Burkina Faso in 2015.
The base in Barani “was the target of a terrorist attack led by an unidentified armed group at around 5 am
In its ruling, the court found that “the termination of the contract by Burkina was valid and justified in law”
The NGO also questioned the military’s original motive for the operation
Inspired by the #MeToo movement, two actresses, Ivorian, Nadège Beausson-Diagne and Azata Soro of Burkina Faso, are calling for a similar movement in the African cinema industry.
A few days after its inauguration, the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou is covered with a veil, following the controversy over the lack of similarity of the work with the father of the Burkinabe revolution.
Sankara is immortalized along with the busts of 12 of his comrades who were also murdered in the 1987 coup