More than one hundred people – civilians and military – have died in the past two weeks, according to a statement by the France -Presse agency.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Fifty -one soldiers were killed on Friday February 17 during an ambush stretched by alleged jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, according to the latest assessment communicated by the army on Monday. “The operations continue with an intensification of air actions which made it possible to neutralize a hundred terrorists and to destroy their equipment, specify the soldiers. This figure is added to the sixty neutralized terrorists since the start of the response.”
A military patrol “in motion” was the victim of a “complex” attack on Friday between Deou and Bear (province of Oudalan) in the region of the Sahel, border of Mali and Niger, said on Saturday the armed without then giving a balance sheet. She added that “intense fights” had opposed the members of the military unit taken to part “to a terrorist armed group”.
The deadly raids attributed to jihadists are increasing in Burkina. More than one hundred people – civilians and military – have died in the past two weeks, according to a count of the France -Presse agency. Burkina Faso, the scene of two military coups in 2022, has been taken since 2015 in a spiral of jihadist violence that appeared in Mali and Niger since 2015 a few years ago and which has extended beyond their borders.