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Ouagadougou, Nov 22 (EFE) .- Burkina Faso held calm presidential elections Sunday, despite the threat of jihadist terrorism in the West African country, where outgoing president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is running for re-election and the opposition has warned of possible fraud in the elections.(Camera: LEGNAN KOULA) SHOT LIST: PEOPLE VOTING IN OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Vote counting begins in Burkina Faso after a general election in the shadow of a growing jihadist insurgency. Opposition candidates warn of a "massive fraud" at the polls. IMAGES
Images of the reinterment ceremony of Thomas Sankara, in the presence, among others, of the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla. 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
The new self-proclaimed leader of the military junta ruling Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, parades in the streets of Ouagadougou and hails the cheering crowd. IMAGES
Protesters and the military, who claim to have taken power in Burkina Faso, head for the national television station in the capital Ouagadougou. In the same area of the city, demonstrators gather in front of the French embassy, setting fire to barriers and throwing stones inside the building while some wave Russian flags. IMAGES