“I just ran but my brother was left inside,” the woman told Reuters. Security forces arrived at the scene with armoured vehicles after reports of shots fired near Aziz Istanbul, an upscale Turkish restaurant in Ouagadougou. The attack brought back painful memories of the January 2016 attack at another cafe that left 30 people dead. Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in west Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world. But the terror threat in Burkina Faso is increasingly homegrown, experts say.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 02:37 UTC