”Terror recruitment network dismantled’

Officials in Burkina Faso say they have dismantled an extremist network which was trying to recruit people for al-Qaeda-linked movements in the Sahel, the AP news agency reports. Police shot a man who was carrying a gun and a grenade Saturday and are pursuing three others, who are Burkina Faso nationals, the news agency quotes […]

Officials in Burkina Faso say they have dismantled an extremist network which was trying to recruit people for al-Qaeda-linked movements in the Sahel, the AP news agency reports.
Police shot a man who was carrying a gun and a grenade Saturday and are pursuing three others, who are Burkina Faso nationals, the news agency quotes an unnamed senior police officer as saying. 
At least 30 people were killed in January an attack by militants on a hotel in the capital, Ouagadouou.