2016 Ouagadougou attacks Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===International=== The French embassy announced that a "terrorist attack" was underway and urged its citizens to avoid the area.<ref name="ht"/> It added that it had no idea if there were any French citizens inside the hotel. The U.S. embassy issued a statement on [[Twitter]] indicating that while it was aware of the situation, there was no indication of any citizens inside the hotel and also urged its citizens to avoid the downtown area of Ouagadougou.<ref name="wdsu"/> The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued a similar advisory.<ref name="bbc16"/> French President [[François Hollande]] issued a statement early in the morning of 16 January that read: "The President of the Republic expresses his total support for President Kaboré and for the people of Burkina Faso in the face of this odious and cowardly attack which has struck Ouagadougou." Prime Minister [[Manuel Valls]] added on Twitter: "By striking Burkina Faso, terrorists have again struck the world. Together we will respond and we will overcome. #JeSuisOuaga"<ref name="tele"/> President of the National Assembly of Ivory Coast [[Guillaume Soro]] expressed his "compassion and solidarity" to the "government and people."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/SOROKGUILLAUME/status/688323003978006529|title=Guillaume K. Soro on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=16 January 2016|archive-date=16 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116233815/https://twitter.com/SOROKGUILLAUME/status/688323003978006529|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] condemned the attacks.{{cn|date=November 2020}} In announcing the deaths of his fellow citizens, Canadian Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]] condemned "these senseless acts of violence on innocent civilians."<ref name="bbc16"/> Reporting that Ukrainians were killed, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine [[Pavlo Klimkin]] stated that he was "shocked by the attack" that was "a tragedy for all of us..."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/PavloKlimkin/status/688464512081616898|title=Pavlo Klimkin on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=16 January 2016}}</ref> U.S. State Department Spokesman [[John Kirby (admiral)|John Kirby]] later offered condolences on the death of his fellow citizen and added that his family "are with all those affected by this brutality." The U.S. embassy called it a "senseless assault on innocent people."<ref name="cnn"/> Regional neighbor Algeria's Foreign Minister [[Ramtane Lamamra]] also condemned the attacks and expressed its solidarity with the families of the victims, the government and the Burkinabé people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radioalgerie.dz/news/fr/article/20160116/64667.html|title=L'Algérie condamne avec "la plus grande vigueur" les attaques terroristes à Ouagadougou|work=Radio Algeria|language=French|date=16 January 2016|access-date=18 January 2016|archive-date=21 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221190301/http://www.radioalgerie.dz/news/fr/article/20160116/64667.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Ghana's President [[John Mahama]] appointed his former chief of staff, [[Prosper Douglas Bani]], as interior minister to reinforce domestic security following the attacks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20160119/2773428.html|title=Ghana's president appoints new interior minister|work=Web India News|date=19 January 2016|access-date=21 January 2016|archive-date=27 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127055029/http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/World/20160119/2773428.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page