Seven police officers, 4 soldiers die in Niger attacks

Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the countrys borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said Wednesday.
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Burkina ex-president Blaise Compaore gets life for Sankara killing

A military court in Burkina Faso on Wednesday handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.
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20 killed in attack on Burkina Faso gold mine - locals

About 20 civilians were killed in a night attack on a gold mine in Burkina Fasos restive north, local sources said Saturday. "Dozens of armed men travelling on motorcycles attacked the gold mine in Kougdiguin," on the night of Thursday to Friday in the Namentenga province, a local said.
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‘Happiest man’ Kere first African to win Pritzker Prize

Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere has become the first African to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honour.
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France says nearly 60 'terrorists' killed ahead of Burkina coup

Nearly 60 "terrorists" were killed in Burkina Faso by local forces alongside French troops on the eve of the 24 January coup in the poor Sahel country, France's military said on Sunday.
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Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore detained at military camp by soldiers following mutiny

Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, four security sources and a West African diplomat said on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou.
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One soldier, 15 jihadists killed in weekend battle in Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou – One Burkina Faso soldier and around 15 jihadists died in fighting over the weekend, the army of the west African nation said on Monday. The soldier died on Saturday in eastern Komadjari province in a battle that saw about 15 "terrorists neutralised", it said.
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At least 69 dead in west Niger jihadist attack

At least 69 people, including a local mayor, have been killed in an attack in Niger's volatile "tri-border" zone with Burkina Faso and Mali, the interior ministry said on Thursday.
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Thomas Sankara, pan-African icon who wanted to 'decolonise minds'

After being dubbed Africa's Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara wanted to "decolonise minds" in Burkina Faso and across the continent if Africa. However, his revolutionary dreams were cut short when fellow soldiers gunned him down in a 1987 coup after just four years in power. 
#thomassankara #cheguevara #burkinafaso