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Jun 25, 2021 · OUAGADOUGOU, June 24 (Reuters) - A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried out mostly by children between the ages of 12 and 14,...
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Dec 21, 2021 · They were killed by children – some apparently as young as 12 – and men who had arrived on dozens of motorbikes and were egged on in their murderous spree by women who knew the village well,...
May 17, 2024 · A report published by the NGO Human Rights Watch had already documented the February 25 atrocities, which left at least 223 civilians dead, including women and children . The bodies of...
Oct 24, 2021 · In a photo from February 2020, Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pick-up truck at a camp sheltering Malian refugees, in Dori [Olympia de Maismont/AFP] By Sam Mednick Published On 24 Oct 2021 ...
May 11, 2024 · May 11, 2024. He lay on top of his young sons, trying to shield them with his body, he said. The military had forced them and dozens of other villagers under a baobab tree. Then, he said, the...
Mar 22, 2024 · DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Women slain with babies wrapped against their bodies, lifeless children intertwined together, a 2-month-old face-up on the ground with puppies crawling on his tiny frame....
Nov 13, 2023 · Updated 2:39 PM PDT, November 13, 2023. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Assailants in northern Burkina Faso killed about 70 people, most of them children and the elderly, in a village massacre earlier this month that remains under investigation, authorities said Monday.
