Clement Sawadogo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/clement-sawadogo/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Clement Sawadogo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/clement-sawadogo/ 32 32 Mutinous soldier was among terrorist attackers in Ouagadougou https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/mutinour-soldier-among-terrorist-attackers-ouagadougou/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/mutinour-soldier-among-terrorist-attackers-ouagadougou/ French experts have flown into Ouagadougou to help Burkina Faso authorities investigate Friday’s attacks on the army headquarters and Paris Embassy  that left 16 dead. This was the third deadly mass  attack in the Burkina attack in the past three years. A former Burkina Faso soldier, fired from the army after a mutiny seven years […]

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]]> French experts have flown into Ouagadougou to help Burkina Faso authorities investigate Friday’s attacks on the army headquarters and Paris Embassy  that left 16 dead.

This was the third deadly mass  attack in the Burkina attack in the past three years.

A former Burkina Faso soldier, fired from the army after a mutiny seven years ago, is believed tp have  participated in Friday’s simultaneous attacks by al-Qaeda-linked extremists.

Many of the militants were wearing army uniforms. Some were from Burkina Faso, including two men arrested in connection with the attack. Security Minister Clement Sawadogo says the attack on the army installation  narrowly missed a meeting of top officers, which would have beheaded the military leadership.

Terrorist hit a Turkish restaurant  Ougadougo last year killing 19 people snd 30 people died when a hotel was struck in 2016.

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