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Burkina Faso: UN Refugee Agency Condemns 'Brutal and Callous' Killings
UN News, 8 October 2020
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has strongly condemned an attack, on the night of 4 October, targeting a convoy carrying internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso, in which 25… Read more »
UN Condemns Refugee Killings in Burkina Faso
The UN refugee agency has strongly condemned an October 4 attack on a convoy transporting internally displaced people, that left 25 dead and one seriously injured. Burkina Faso has seen a recent surge in violence that has claimed hundreds of lives and displaced thousands. Rights group had earlier accused security forces of executing at least 180 bodies of Fulanis in the northern town of Djibo whom they accused of bing in support of Islamist armed groups operating from the north.
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