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Twenty-eight civilians are found dead in the town of Nouna, in northwest Burkina Faso. Burkinabé human rights groups say that the killings were perpetrated by pro-government militia VDP on December 15, 18, and 22.
2023-01-3

Junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is removed from office in a coup d'état after gunfire in the Burkinabé capital of Ouagadougou. Coup leader Ibrahim Traoré imposes a curfew, suspends all political civil society activities as well as the Constitution, and closes all land and air borders.
2022-09-30

Two police officers are killed and another is injured in Dassari, Benin, by militants suspected to be from Niger or Burkina Faso.
2022-06-26

Incumbent president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is declared victorious in Burkina Faso's latest general election. The voting process was overshadowed by a deteriorating security situation in the northern parts of the country primarily due to islamistic terrorism, resulting in at least one fifth of the country having been unable to participate in the election.
2020-11-26

At least 15 people are killed in northern Burkina Faso after a convoy transporting traders is targeted by an unidentified armed group. Burkina Faso has been fighting Islamist terrorists amid a resurgence of attacks in the Sahel.
2020-05-29

Islamist gunmen kill at least 24 people, including a pastor, in a mass shooting on a church during mass in Pansi, Yagha Province, Sahel Region, Burkina Faso.
2020-02-16

Four hostages, who were being held in northern Burkina Faso, are rescued by French naval commandos, with two French commandos killed during the rescue operation. Those freed include two Frenchmen who had been kidnapped in Benin on May 1 and a pair of women, one an American and the other a South Korean.
2019-05-10

Nine civilians are killed in twin attacks carried out by Islamist militants in eastern Burkina Faso.
2018-09-15

The provisional government of Burkina Faso is overthrown in a military coup.
2015-09-17