A Mali-based al-Qaeda affiliate, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), claimed responsibility on Saturday for attacks in neighbouring Burkina Faso that left 16 people dead, including eight gunmen, at the army headquarters and French embassy, Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar reported. Eighty others were wounded in the coordinated attacks in the capital Ouagadougou.