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US State Department warns against travel to Burkina Faso

A map of Burkina Faso. The US State Department on November 26, 2019, issued a travel advisory urging Americans not to travel to Burkina Faso which is battling jihadist insurgency. FILE PHOTO | GOOGLE MAPS

By  AFP

Washington

The US State Department has urged Americans not to travel to Burkina Faso, which has been fighting an Islamist militant revolt since 2015.

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