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In this Feb. 13, 2012, file photo, an armed member of the militant group al-Shabab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

‘Wildfire of terrorism’ threatens to overtake African region as U.S., allies pull back

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Doctors caring with COVID-19 patients ferry medical equipment, at the Farcha provincial hospital in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday April 30, 2021. While the world's wealthier nations have stockpiled coronavirus vaccines for their citizens, many poorer countries are scrambling to secure enough doses, and some, like Chad, have yet to receive any. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Vaccine deserts: Some countries have no COVID-19 jabs at all

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Two soldiers stand in the Catholic church at the 10th RCAS army barracks in Kaya, Burkina Faso, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Once considered a beacon of peace and religious coexistence in the region, the West African nation has been embroiled in unprecedented violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State since 2016, throwing an ill-equipped and undertrained army into disarray — and overwhelming the chaplains tasked with supporting them. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)

Burkina Faso’s army chaplains tested by extremist conflict

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Coffins carrying the bodies of Spanish reporters David Beriain, Roberto Fraile and the director of the Chengeta Wildlife Foundation Rory Young, arrive from Burkina Faso at the Madrid military airport on Friday, April 30, 2021. Two Spanish journalists and the Irish director of a wildlife foundation were killed Monday in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso. The two journalists were working with the wildlife campaigner on a documentary about poachers in a national park bordering Benin when they were attacked by gunmen. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

3 slain while filming poaching in Burkina Faso flown home

By SAM MEDNICK and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A woman who said she was trafficked from Nigeria under false pretenses to work as a sex slave in Burkina Faso's mining sites, walks through a row of tent in the Secaco mining town June 12, 2020. As part of a months-long investigation into sex trafficking and the gold mining industry, The Associated Press met with nearly 20 Nigerian women who said they had been brought to Burkina Faso under false pretenses, then forced into prostitution. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Dozos, ancient hunters who have been drawn into the Islamic extremist fight, participate in a celebration of their culture in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 360 kilometers (220 miles) west of the capital, Ouagadougou, on Sunday, March 28, 2021. Fighters are putting their faith in traditional spiritual practices to protect them as attacks linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State ravage the West African nation, killing thousands and displacing more than 1 million people. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)

Burkina Faso fighters seek protection with spiritual rituals

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

A soldier wounded in an attack lays in a bed in a military hospital in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou Tuesday April 27, 2021. Three foreigners and one soldier are missing in Burkina Faso after being attacked in an ambush by gunmen during an anti-poaching patrol near a national park in the country's east near Pama town according to security and government officials. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Two Spanish reporters, Irish activist killed in Burkina Faso

By SAM MEDNICK and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Ex-Burkina Faso president charged in predecessor’s murder

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

UN: Burkina Faso on brink of protracted humanitarian crisis

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Balkissa Barro, 10, center, walks to school with friends in the Burkina Faso village of Dori Tuesday Oct. 20, 2020. Children returning to school in Burkina Faso's volatile Sahel region, have to practice safety drills to prepare for potential jihadist attacks that have ravaged the West African nation, killing more than 2,000 people this year. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Students in Burkina Faso fear extremists more than COVID-19

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

An election official counts the ballots in at a polling station in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, for the presidential and legislative elections late Sunday Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)

Burkina Faso counts ballots; extremist threats affected vote

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

American citizen killed in Burkina Faso, US State Dept says

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

People line up to vote in Burkina Faso's presidential and legislative elections in Ouagadougou Sunday Nov. 22, 2020. Voters went to the polls in Burkina Faso on Sunday for the elections that have been marred by ongoing extremist violence in this landlocked West African nation. (AP Photo/Sophie Garcia)

Burkina Faso votes amid ongoing extremist violence, threats

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Supporters of Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore attend a campaign rally in Bobo-Dioulasso Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Burkina Faso will go to the polls on Nov. 22, 2020, to vote in presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing violence. Attacks linked to Islamic militants have ravaged the once peaceful nation.(AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Burkina Faso to vote amid escalating violence

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Supporters of Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore attend a campaign rally in Bobo-Dioulasso Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. Burkina Faso will go to the polls on Nov. 22, 2020, to vote in presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing violence. Attacks linked to Islamic militants have ravaged the once peaceful nation. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Burkina Faso moves ahead with vote despite extremist attacks

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

14 Burkina Faso soldiers killed by extremists in Sahel area

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Attack on Burkina Faso mosque wounds 6, says government

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

A worker moves boxes at Snowman Logistics, India's largest cold storage company in Taloja, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The vaccine cold chain hurdle is just the latest disparity of the pandemic weighted against the poor, who more often live and work in crowded conditions that allow the virus to spread, have little access to medical oxygen vital to COVID-19 treatment, and whose health systems lack labs, supplies or technicians to carry out large-scale testing. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Vaccine storage issues could leave 3B people without access

By LORI HINNANT and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Marguerite Ouangraoua, a nurse at the health clinic in Zeguedessin village on the outskirts of Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, opens the fridge where the clinic keeps the vaccines, Thursday Oct. 8, 2020. The vaccine cold chain hurdle is just the latest disparity of the pandemic weighted against the poor, who more often live and work in crowded conditions that allow the virus to spread, have little access to medical oxygen vital to COVID-19 treatment, and whose health systems lack labs, supplies or technicians to carry out large-scale testing. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Vaccine storage demands could leave 3B people in virus cold

By LORI HINNANT and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

File-This June 4, 2020, file photo shows Women and children walk in a makeshift site for displaced people in Kongoussi, Burkina Faso. The U.N. humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, is hoping a major ministerial meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, will not only raise a billion dollars for the three countries at the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region -- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger -- but spur leaders to address the underlying drivers including increasing conflict and insecurity, weak governance, and a lack of development (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press