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Five people are killed and two other passengers are injured after a private aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Diapaga Airport in Diapaga Department, Burkina Faso.
2024-03-6

Islamist militants ambush soldiers in Gourma Province, Burkina Faso, killing 13 soldiers.
2022-03-21

The trial for the 1987 assassination of former leader of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, known as the "African Che Guevara", begins in Ouagadougou against 14 people, including former president Blaise Compaoré, who will be tried "in absentia".
2021-10-11

Ghana culls more than 4,500 chickens and restricts the movement of poultry after nearly 6,000 birds died from the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu.
2021-07-17

The United States says it is "deeply concerned" about abuses by state security forces in the Sahel and threatens to cut aid to the G5 nations that form a coalition in the area – Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad – if those issues are not addressed. The U.S. also welcomes a summit to be held between the G5 nations and France and Spain.
2020-07-9

Canadian national Édith Blais and her Italian partner Luca Tacchetto are found alive in Mali after escaping from their captors. The pair were abducted in Burkina Faso on December 15, 2018.
2020-03-14

A roadside bomb strikes a bus in Toeni Department of Burkina Faso, killing fourteen people, including students on their way to school.
2020-01-4

Thirty-five civilians are dead and six others are injured after jihadists stormed the town of Arbinda, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, and its military base, killing seven soldiers. Eighty militants were also killed.
2019-12-24

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

Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso, who took power in a coup 24 years ago, reportedly flees a mutiny of his military bodyguards.
2011-04-15