Terrorism has become a worldwide plague with severe consequences for the development of nations.
Besides killing innocent people daily and preventing educational activities from taking place, terrorism is
also hindering economic growth. Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can
contribute to fighting terrorism by predicting in real-time future terrorist attacks if accurate data is
available. This paper is part of a research project that uses text from social networks to extract necessary
information to build an adequate dataset for terrorist attack prediction. We collected a set of 3000 social
network texts about terrorism in Burkina Faso and used a subset to experiment with existing NLP
solutions. The experiment reveals that existing solutions have poor accuracy for location recognition,
which our solution resolves. We will extend the solution to extract dates and action information to achieve
the project's goal.