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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Ouagadougou, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 44 stories have been published about Ouagadougou which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Ouagadougou, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 44 stories have been published about Ouagadougou which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Crime · OuagadougouAid group Doctors Without Borders said Friday it’s suspending non-emergency services in Burkina Faso after gunmen killed two of its staff there.
Doctors Without Borders suspends operations in Burkina Faso
71% Left coverage: 7 sources
Europe · OuagadougouBurkina Faso's military junta has expelled France's ambassador, authorities said Monday, amid a surge in anti-French sentiment as the West African country moves to develop closer ties with Russia.
Burkina Faso's military regime expels French ambassador
55% Left coverage: 11 sources
Politics · OuagadougouFour suspected jihadi attacks leave about 30 people dead in Burkina Faso. The dead include 16 volunteers backing up the army, security sources say. The attacks are the latest to hit a civilian auxiliary force supporting the military. The West African nation has been grappling with an insurgency led by jihadis.
Two attacks by militants kill 18 people in Burkina Faso, claim security sources
42% Center coverage: 7 sources
Terrorism · OuagadougouThe Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing more than 70 soldiers, wounding dozens and taking five hostage, in an ambush on a military convoy in northern Burkina Faso.
More than 70 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso, extremists say
54% Center coverage: 15 sources
Entertainment · OuagadougouMore than 15,000 people, including cinema celebrities from Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are expected in Ouagadougou. Some 1,300 films were submitted for consideration and 100 have been selected to compete from 35 African countries and the diaspora. Nearly half of those in the fiction competition this year are directed by women.
Africa's largest film festival offers hope in Burkina Faso
44% Center coverage: 25 sources
Politics · OuagadougouBurkina Faso's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation.
Iconic West African leader Sankara reburied in Burkina Faso
45% Center coverage: 18 sources
Troops · OuagadougouFrance and Burkina Faso have officially marked the end of French military operations in the West African nation, the Burkinabe armed forces said on Sunday, after a flag-lowering ceremony at the French special forces' camp a day earlier.
Burkina Faso announces end of French troop operations in the country
40% Center coverage: 15 sources
Terrorism · OuagadougouBurkina Faso’s army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country’s northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
Burkina Faso says 66 women, children freed from extremists
53% Center coverage: 30 sources