Eddie Komboigo

Burkina Faso to vote in shadow of extremist threat

Fourteen soldiers were killed in an ambush in the north claimed by the Daesh group earlier this month, one of the deadliest attacks on the military in the five-year insurgency
Emmanuel Macron — president of Burkina Faso’s former colonial ruler France, which has troops in the country — waded into the debate, ruling out negotiating with extremists

By AFP · 20 November 2020