Djibo has gone silent. Messages sent to several residents go unanswered. In Burkina Faso's major northern city, besieged by jihadists for two years, fear dominates daily life. The fear was ...

A young businessman from Niger with a degree in nuclear geophysics, Djibo Takoubakoya Daouda held a flurry of meetings in Paris at the end of September as part of a program, "the future’s leading ...