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Added on the 30/04/2021 09:49:58 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
Fans arrive at the vast new 60,000-seat Olembe Stadium in Yaounde for the Africa Cup of Nations opener between the hosts Cameroon and Burkina Faso. IMAGES
A UN convoy transport the bodies of Italy's ambassador to the the Democratic Republic of the Congo and his bodyguard to the airport in Goma for repatriation. The diplomats were killed in an attack on Monday. IMAGES
Parisians pay tribute to the two soldiers killed during a raid to rescue four hostages in Burkina Faso, as the funeral procession passes by the Pont Alexandre III bridge ahead of a ceremony at the Invalides led by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
The bodies of two Bangladeshis killed in the Christchurch mosques shooting earlier this month have been returned home to their grieving families. IMAGES