| 5,486,138 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Burkina Faso's ambassador to France was named the African country's new prime minister Monday as police joined soldiers on a rampage and students staged violent protests against President Blaise Compaore's regime. |
| 5,486,142 |
12.25 |
-2.3667 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Youths protested violently in the streets of Koudougou setting fire to government buildings. |
| 5,486,147 |
13.0917 |
-1.0844 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Soldiers and paramilitary police poured into the streets of the northern town of Kaya, firing shots into the air, and torching the home of an army regiment chief and ransacking that of a regional officer, residents told AFP by telephone |
| 5,486,151 |
14.44 |
-0.24 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Soldiers of the 11th commando infantry regiment opened fire "for a little while before stopping" in the northern town of Gorom-Gorom near the border with Mali, a witness told AFP. |
| 5,486,155 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Protest-hit Burkina Faso was faced with a fresh police mutiny in the capital Ouagadougou late Wednesday as shots were heard from a barracks of the Republican Security Company (CRS), witnesses said. |
| 5,486,158 |
12.25 |
-2.3667 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Violent protests erupted anew in the troubled Burkinabe town of Koudougou where angry shopkeepers and students set fire to the mayor's home and a police headquarters. |
| 5,486,162 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Four students were injured during a protest Friday, three by bullets, as Burkina Faso police opened fire to disperse the youths who set fire to a police station, witnesses said. |
| 5,486,165 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Several hundred people gathered in the Burkina Faso capital on Saturday to demand the departure of President Blaise Compaore, whose 24-year rule is being challenged in a wave of popular anger. |
| 5,486,169 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
An 11-year-old child hit by a stray police bullet during unrest in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou has died of his injuries, Security Minister Jerome Bougouma said Saturday. |
| 5,486,172 |
12.3703 |
-1.5247 |
Burkina Faso |
|
Hundreds of students protested in Burkina Faso on Thursday, demanding justice for victims of police violence during a wave of protests which have swept the country in the past two months. |
