
Burkina Faso declares two-day mourning period after 41 killed in ambush
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Burkina Faso declared a two-day period of mourning after at least 41 members of a government-backed civilian militia were killed by suspected militants.
Authorities in Burkina Faso have declared a two-day period of mourning after suspected militants killed at least 41 members of a government-backed civilian militia in the country's desert north this week.
A column of civilian fighters from the Homeland Defence Volunteers (VDP), a group the government funds and trains to contain Islamist insurgents, was ambushed on Thursday as it swept a remote area in the northern Loroum province, authorities said on Saturday.

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