Tags: Burkina Faso

Al Qaeda released a statement naming three attackers responsible for an attack in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The raid on Friday last week left 29 people dead with mostly westerners.

Voters in Congo Republic have overwhelmingly backed a change in the constitution that will allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to run for a third consecutive term, the results of a referendum showed on Tuesday.

The leader of a short-lived coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was handed over to authorities on Thursday after seeking refuge in the Vatican embassy, sources in the transitional government said on Thursday.