In France, where she was born, President Francois Hollande paid his respects while parliament observed a minute of silence for those shot Friday by six gunmen who targeted a hotel and cafe popular with foreigners in the heart of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou.
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Eight Burkinabes, six Canadians, three Ukrainians and two French people were killed, among others.
“I think they fell in love with Burkina Faso”, she said.
On Tuesday, the Burkinabe Minister of Territorial Administration and Internal Security, Simon Compaore is expected to meet with relatives of the victims of the terrorist attack.
In a statement released online, the group said that the attack was “a new message from the heroic champions of Islam, with their blood and their bodies, to the slaves of the cross, the occupiers of our homes, the looters of our wealth, and who would undermine our security”.
Gunmen from the Islamist militant group stormed the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel on Friday night, singling out white people for slaughter.
A group of missionaries from South Florida are returning from Burkina Faso following a number of deadly terror attacks linked to Al-Qaeda.
Throughout Sunday and Monday, Carrier repeated her plea across Quebec media for Ottawa to back military action against jihadist forces.
AQIM claims it carried out the attack on a hotel in Bamako capital of the neighbouring Mali in November a year ago killing 19 people.
Speaking to journalists, Thibault said French troops together with Burkinabe special forces worked hand in hand to end the hotel attack in Ouagadougou that left at least 28 people dead. From there they continued to open fire, and security forces came under fire when leaving the hotel about 4.30am.
One person who survived was Clement Djiguende, who was on a normal workshift in the Cappuccino cafe when bullets began to fly. French experts have been carrying out forensic investigations at the sites.
Ken and Jocelyn Elliot, a Christian couple in their eighties, have been setting up medical facilities in Burkina Faso since the 1970s.
Alaoui, 33, was on assignment for Amnesty International in Burkina Faso working on a project based on womens’ rights in the country.
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The attack was the first of its kind in Burkina Faso, a largely Muslim country that had managed to avoid the kinds of jihadi attacks that have hit neighboring Mali since 2012.
