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Photographer Leila Alaoui, 33, Killed in Burkina Faso Attack

HeadlineJan 20, 2016

And a photographer on assignment for Amnesty International in Burkina Faso has died after she was wounded in Friday’s attack in Ouagadougou. Leila Alaoui was a celebrated French-Moroccan photographer working on a project about women’s rights. She was 33 years old.

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