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Added on the 30/09/2022 11:22:19 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Soldiers are blocking access to the Place de la Nation in downtown Ouagadougou after gunfire was heard in the Burkinabe capital last night. National television is no longer broadcasting and the city's main roads are blocked by soldiers. 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
Protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a halt of US support to Israel's war block a street near the US Capitol, ahead of US President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech. IMAGES
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo arrives at Downing Street for talks with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak. The talks come as Britain launched a second round of joint military strikes on Yemen's Huthis on Red Sea shipping, and growing international pressure to find a solution to the Israel-Gaza conflict. IMAGES
Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza commence their march from Tel Aviv towards the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, to urge the government to take action for their return. The Israeli military estimates some 240 people were taken hostage into the Gaza Strip during Hamas's October 7 attack. Among these captives there are at least 30 children, according to Israeli media. IMAGES