Several hundred people demonstrated Thursday in Nouna, a major city in western Burkina Faso, plagued by jihadist violence, to demand more security after the death of six residents on Tuesday, residents told AFP.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Friday urged Burkina Faso s authorities to ensure an independent and impartial inquiry into a massacre in the northern village of Karma that occurred on Ap.
A teenage girl who reportedly left Nigeria for Burkina Faso last December and was forced into prostitution has been declared missing. Two Nigerian teenagers were also reportedly burnt alive on Thursday by their boyfriends in Burkina Faso. A Catholic missionary seminarian in Burkina Faso known by the Twitter handle @Kizisonofman disclosed on Thursday that the teenage girls were taken to Burkina Faso by human traffickers for prostitution.