Burkina Faso to intensify defence cooperation with France (FM) Burkina Faso Foreign minister Alpha Barry says the country will intensify cooperation in defence and security with France to "eliminate the terrorist threat in the Sahel" after French special forces freed two French hostages, an American and a South Korean in northern Burkina Faso in an overnight raid in which two soldiers died. SOUNDBITES of Alpha Barry, Burkina Faso Foreign minister