
AP News
- Apr 4
‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film killings in Burkina Faso
3 March 2023 By Sam Mednick and Michael Biesecker GRAPHIC CONTENT - An uncle of a 16-year-old named Adama watches a video in Burkina...

United Nations News
- Mar 20
Sahel: 10 Million Children at Risk as Conflict Rages
17 March 2023 Children are increasingly caught up in armed conflict in the climate-affected, food insecure central Sahel region, the UN...


Genocide Watch
- Jan 25, 2022
With Burkina Faso’s president ousted, West Africa faces ‘coup bloc’
By: Danielle Paquette (The Washington Post) DAKAR, Senegal — Mali. Chad. Guinea. Sudan. Even before Burkina Faso’s army declared Monday...

Arsene Kabore & Sam Mednick | AP
- Aug 18, 2021
Suspected extremists kill 47 in northern Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists ambushed a convoy in northern Burkina Faso on Wednesday, killing at least...


Genocide Watch Report: Countries of Special Concern January-June 2021
Genocide Watch exists to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder. Genocide Watch actively monitors the...


NY Times
- Jun 5, 2021
More than 100 People Killed in Attack in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s government said that about 100 people were killed by armed assailants in the north of the country Friday night, in one the...


Sam Mednick | AP
- May 3, 2021
Gunmen kill dozens in attack in eastern Burkina Faso
KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — At least 30 people were killed by gunmen in eastern Burkina Faso Monday, according to the government. The...

Genocide Watch
- Feb 19, 2021
At least 18 killed in attacks in Burkina Faso and Mali
OUAGADOUGOU/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Suspected Islamists killed at least 18 people in attacks in northern Burkina Faso and central Mali on...


Sam Mednick | AP
- Feb 14, 2021
Women fleeing Burkina Faso violence face sexual assault
KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — A 20-year-old woman could no longer live in her village amid the rising violence caused by Islamic extremists....


Sam Mednick | AP
- Feb 12, 2021
UN: Burkina Faso on brink of protracted humanitarian crisis
KAYA, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso is on the brink of becoming a protracted crisis after extremist violence displaced over 1 million...


Genocide Watch
- Jan 22, 2021
Grim milestone as Sahel violence displaces 2 million inside their countries
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press...


Keminni Amanor | VOA
- Jan 7, 2021
UNICEF Calls for End to Massacre of Children and Families in Niger
The U.N. children’s fund has strongly condemned the killing of at least 17 minors among scores of others slain in a weekend massacre in...