24 July – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou and Algiers, Algeria with 116 people on board. The wreckage is later found in Mali.[1]
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30 October – Protestors demanding the resignation of President Blaise Compaoré set fire to parliament and other official buildings. The Chief of the Army dismisses the government and national assembly and announces a curfew and a transition time of one year. Compaoré fled to Dakar, Senegal.[2]
17 November – Former Burkina Faso foreign minister Michel Kafando is named as transitional President.[4]
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^"Algerian jet crashes over Africa". 24 July 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^"Thousands march in Burkina against president's re-election bid". 30 October 2014. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^"Burkina Faso general takes over as Compaore resigns". 1 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
^"Burkina names former foreign minister as interim leader". 17 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.