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Dr Ken Elliott has been freed after spending seven years being held captive in West Africa.

Kidnapped Australian, 88, released after seven-year fight for freedom

Ken Elliott and his wife spent 43 years running a hospital in west Africa before al-Qaeda extremists stormed their home and kidnapped them.

  • Matthew Knott

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Coup spokesman Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reads a statement in a studio in Ougadougou on Friday.

Army officers appear on TV to declare a new coup in Burkina Faso

Many had supported a military takeover last January, frustrated with the previous government’s inability to stem Islamic extremist violence that has killed thousands and displaced at least 2 million.

  • Sam Mednick and Arsene K
Activist Mamadou Drabo, leader of the Save Burkina Faso movement, announces to the crowd gathered Place de la Nation that Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba has taken the reins of the country.

Crowds cheer coup in Ouagadougou after a wave of terrorist attacks

In a swift coup, Burkina Faso’s military deposed the democratically elected president, arguing he failed to manage the nation’s terrorism crisis.

  • Sam Mednick
South African police and National Defence Force officers enforce a 21-day lockdown in Johannesburg.

'A huge challenge': Africa braces for a coronavirus tsunami

Experts say the continent is "very, very close" to where Europe was 40 days into the coronavirus pandemic.

Soldiers from the Burkina Faso presidential guard patrol outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako which was attacked in 2015.

Unprecedented number of deaths in attack in Burkina Faso

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. A number of Islamic extremist groups are known to operate in the country.

The attack took place on a road leading to a gold mine owned by Canada's Semafo in eastern Burkina Faso.

'So many dead': survivors describe terrifying Burkina Faso ambush

A survivor described the attackers, some speaking a foreign language and shouting "Allahu Akbar", as raking three busloads of mining workers with bullets.

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The attack killed at least 37 and wounded 60, local authorities said.

Australia's Perenti says 19 of its employees killed in Burkina Faso attack

The mining services provider said that 19 of its employees were among the more than three dozen people killed in the ambush of a convoy ferrying hundreds of workers near a Canadian-owned mine in Burkina Faso.

  • Nikhil Kurian Nainan
A soldier stands guard outside the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Dozens killed during ambush on Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso

Gunmen attacked a convoy near a Canadian mining site in Burkina Faso, killing at least 37 people and wounding 60 others, the regional governor said late Wednesday.

  • Arsene Kabore
Smoke can be seen rising in the distance from an Islamic extremist attack in 2018.

Deadly church attack in Burkina Faso

The attack during morning Mass occurred in the country's restive north, where militants linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda have recently gained ground.

  • Danielle Paquette
Extremists slaughter civilians in Burkina Faso

Extremists slaughter civilians in Burkina Faso

Until now, extremists in the eastern part of the west African country have largely targeted security forces.

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