2018 Ouagadougou attacks
A terrorist attack at the French embassy and military headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, leaves 28 people dead and at least 50 others injured.

Nine civilians are killed in twin attacks carried out by Islamist militants in eastern Burkina Faso.
Two French soldiers are killed after their armoured vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Mali.
A man attempts to run over pedestrians outside a mosque in Créteil, France.
France announces that it plans to intervene in the conflict in the Central African Republic.