Burkina Faso’s military junta arrests European humanitarian NGO workers for ‘spying’

Burkina Faso’s military government said it had arrested eight members of a Hague-based humanitarian NGO on Tuesday, accusing them of collecting and sharing sensitive information detrimental to the African country’s security. Those arrested included a Frenchman, a French-Senegalese woman, a Czech man, a Malian and four Burkinabe nationals.