January 7 – Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré is reappointed.[1]
February
February 10 – President Kaboré travels to
Brussels,
Belgium, on the first stop of a European tour.[2]
February 13 – Ramesh Rajasingham, acting
United Nations assistant secretary-general for
humanitarian affairs, tells the
Associated Press that Burkina Faso is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis as 3.5 million people need assistance.[3]
February 25 – Burkina Faso is one of four countries added to the
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of places that are only partially in compliance with international efforts against financing
terrorism and
money laundering.[4]
21 November - A healthcare centre supported by
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in
Foube, Barsalogho department, in the Centre-North region of
Burkina Faso, was burnt down. A member of the MSF team was injured during an attack by unidentified armed men, probably targeting the Foube police post, a few hundred metres away. The violence continues to increase daily in Burkina Faso.[7]
December
23 December -
AFP reports that suspected militants ambushed and killed 41 members of a column of civilian fighters from the Homeland Defence Volunteers (VDP), a group the government funds and trains to contain Islamist insurgents. The government of Burkina Faso has declared a two-day mourning period.[8]
