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The funeral for the Burkina Faso military officers killed in an attack on a supply convoy headed for the northern town to Djibo on September 26 is held in the coutnry's capital, Ougadougou. The ambush, claimed by Al-Qaeda, with an official death toll of 37 people, 27 of them soldiers, has become emblematic of the state's inability to secure remote countryside areas and protect local people, 10 years into a bloody jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Niger President Mohamed Bazoum and the head of Chad's military junta, Mahmat Idriss Déby Itno, to the Élysée Palace for a meeting on the Sahel region. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Notre-Dame de Nice basilica after the knife attack that killed three people. IMAGES
President Emmanuel Macron arrives at the Interior Ministry to take part in a crisis meeting following a knife attack that left three people dead near a church in Nice. IMAGES
Six people were killed in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou on Friday when they attacked the French embassy and the country's military headquarters, the government said, adding that members of the security forces had also been wounded. PHOTOS of authorities responding to attack