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Mali announces that it carried out joint airstrikes with Burkina Faso on insurgents in and around Tinzaouaten. The CSP-PSD says that a Burkinabé drone strike killed dozens of civilians.
2024-07-31

Six people are killed and two others are injured when militants attack a gold mine in Boungou, Bilanga Department, Gnagna Province, Burkina Faso.
2022-08-27

Suspected jihadists massacre over 100 men in Seytenga Department, Séno Province, Burkina Faso.
2022-06-11

Eleven people are killed and nine others are injured in Islamist attacks in Loroum and Sanmatenga provinces, Burkina Faso. Twenty attackers are also killed.
2022-05-6

The death toll from the attack at a military post in Inata, Soum Province, Burkina Faso, three days ago, increases to 53, including 49 gendarmes and four civilians.
2021-11-17

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

After a tense standoff, Burkina Faso's military crushed the elite presidential guard and seized the coup's abandoned headquarters. The former head of the guard, Gen. Gilbert Diendéré, had called on his men to lay down their weapons to avoid a bloodbath. Diendéré told Agence France-Presse (AFP) he feared “many deaths and injuries” in the operation. It is unclear whether there are casualties.
2015-09-29

Burkina Faso's cabinet dissolves the elite presidential guard behind last week's coup d'état, creates a commission to investigate these events, and dismisses the minister in charge of security.
2015-09-25

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

Soldiers detain the interim president and prime minister of Burkina Faso, as well as a number of cabinet ministers, sparking fear of a coup d'etat. A joint statement by the United Nations, the African Union, and the Economic Community of West African States states that the presidential guard should immediately release the leaders of the interim government.
2015-09-16