Burkina Faso Again in Mourning After Jihadi Massacre

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO - The impoverished Sahel state of Burkina Faso was plunged once more into mourning on Thursday after suspected jihadis killed 49 people in an attack that raised fresh doubts about its armed forces. 

The national flag was lowered to half-staff for three days of mourning at the parliament, presidency and government in offices in the capital Ouagadougou, an AFP journalist said.  Several television and radio channels changed their programming, mostly broadcasting songs paying tribute to the defense and security forces.  Newspapers and online media placed a black edging of mourning around their front pages, although some raised pointed questions over the country's security crisis.