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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

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

CORRECTING DATE TO MARCH 3 - Security forces outside the General Staff of the Armed Forces building in central Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Saturday March 3, 2018. The markets returned to near normal Saturday, after Islamic extremists struck the French Embassy and army headquarters Friday in simultaneous attacks of gunfire and explosives, killing eight people and wounding more than 80 others. (AP Photo/ Ludivine Laniepce)

Ex-Burkina Faso soldier may have been in extremist attacks

By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO - Associated Press

A soldier walks near the rear of the Army Headquarters in central Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday March 2, 2018. Gunfire and explosions rocked Burkina Faso's capital early Friday in what the police said was a suspected attack by Islamic extremists. By midday the gunfire became intermittent and helicopters flew above the French Embassy in Ouagadougou.(AP Photo/ Ludivine Laniepce)

Brazen Burkina Faso attacks raise concern of growing threat

By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO and CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

The Latest: UN chief condemns terror attacks in Burkina Faso

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This image taken from video, early Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, shows an armoured vehicle driving down a street after an attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Suspected Islamic extremists opened fire at a Turkish restaurant in the capital of Burkina Faso late Sunday, killing at least 18 people in the second such attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in the last two years. (@Yabsi1er via AP)

The Latest: 2 Canadians among 18 dead in Burkina Faso attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Security forces gather near the Hotel that was attacked by suspected militants in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016. Burkina Faso and French forces rescued more people from a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso’s capital as they worked to take back the blackened building early Saturday, exchanging heavy gunfire with al Qaeda militants who had seized it the night before. (AP Photo/Ludivine Laniepce )

Burkina Faso hotel seizure ends; 4 jihadis, 23 others dead

By Brahima Ouedraogo - Associated Press