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"There won't be an election that is only concentrated in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso and other nearby towns," he said in November, referring to two cities that have largely been spared the violence unleashed by jihadists.

Years ago the excitement at the cinema was palpable in Bobo-Dioulasso, the country's cultural capital, where film producers and cinephiles abounded.

It requested security reinforcements at the French embassy, the ambassador's residence and French schools and cultural establishments in capital Ouagadougou and in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso.

He chose a military career after completing his schooling in Burkina Faso's second city, Bobo-Dioulasso, with reports describing him as "shy and rather reserved" but also "very intelligent".

Nigerian women are usually taken to the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso and sold for upward of $700 to different Nigerian madams, according to interviews with several women, a trafficker, and local authorities.