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Nigerien military junta president Abdourahamane Tchiani, Burkinabè President Ibrahim Traoré, and Malian President Assimi Goïta sign a reciprocal defence pact and mutually reject ECOWAS, accusing it of being influenced by foreign interests.
2024-07-6

The Parliament of Ghana votes to formally abolish the death penalty, becoming the latest African nation to end the punishment. The 176 prisoners currently on death row in Ghanian prisons will now have their sentences changed to life imprisonment.
2023-07-25

Ten volunteers and four Burkina Faso Armed Forces soldiers are killed during an ambush in Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso. Twenty attackers are killed.
2023-03-22

Thirteen people, including nine civilians, are killed in a militant attack in Bam, Burkina Faso; thirty-four insurgents are also killed.
2022-08-4

At least 30 civilians are killed and 20 more wounded as several armed men assault a village in Foutouri, Burkina Faso. It is one of the deadliest attacks in the country's history.
2021-05-3

A court in Lahore, Pakistan, sentences a Christian man to death for sending a "blasphemous" message to his former supervisor at work in 2013. The defendant said that his supervisor had tried to convert him to Islam, which he refused to do. The court rejected his testimony.
2020-09-8

Police in Kaduna, Nigeria, raid an Islamic learning centre, and free around 500 men and male children held captive there. The freed detainees allege torture, slavery, and sexual abuse, and some display evidence of injury and malnutrition. Two children self-identify as being from Burkina Faso, with the remaining captives thought by police to be mostly Nigerian. Eight suspects are arrested.
2019-09-27

Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching to fully reject the death penalty, saying that it would work to abolish the death penalty worldwide.
2018-08-2

The Tunisian parliament approves a new anti-terror law that allows the death penalty for terrorists.
2015-07-25

Hamas' interior ministry executes three Palestinians in Gaza, without the approval of the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
2010-05-18