Abducted Burkina women flee jihadist gunmen through bush
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Piercing thorns and stones underfoot did not stop the young woman as she charged through thickets, baby strapped to her back, fleeing armed militants who had kidnapped her with dozens of others in northern Burkina Faso last week. Now back home in the town of Arbinda along with a few who also […]
Burkina Faso pastor and his family released after four days
World Watch Monitor A Christian pastor who was abducted on Sunday with his family in Burkina Faso’s north-eastern province of Soum has been released. Local sources told national broadcaster Omega Radio that Pastor Pierre Boena, his son David and his daughter-in-law, Ami Sawadogo were released on 7th June. A church in Burkina Faso in 2009. The recent […]
Second Christian leader in two weeks kidnapped in Burkina Faso
World Watch Monitor A Christian pastor and three members of his family have been kidnapped in Burkina Faso’s north-eastern province of Soum, two weeks after the kidnapping of another Christian leader and his wife. Pierre Boena, a pastor with an Assembly of God church, was kidnapped during the evening of Sunday, 3rd June. in his […]
Two years on, thousands in Burkina Faso call for release of ‘doctor of the poor’
World Watch Monitor Ken Elliott. PICTURE: Via Facebook Thousands took to the streets of Djibo, a northern town in Burkina Faso, on Monday to call for the government to secure the release of an Australian doctor, Ken Elliott, kidnapped two years ago. The abduction was claimed by the ‘Emirate of the Sahara’, a branch of Al-Qaeda in […]