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Africa North
Seven Soldiers Killed in Burkina Faso Attack
2020-11-13
[AnNahar] Seven soldiers were killed and several others maimed or missing after their patrol was ambushed in northern Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, security sources said Thursday.

The attack occurred Wednesday on the road between Tin Akoff and Beldiabe, in Oudalan province, one source said.

"The provisional toll is seven soldiers dead," the source said, with others maimed or missing.
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