At least six people were killed in northern Burkina Faso in several attacks attributed to jihadists, local and military sources told AFP on Sunday. Several hundred people took to the streets of Burkina over the weekend to protest the wave of jihadist attacks engulfing the poor West African nation. “A terrorist attack cost six civilians their lives in Alga,” a town in the province of Bam, on Saturday a security source told AFP. A gendarme brigade came under a “terrorist attack”, the military said, adding that they died along with “several terrorists”. After a relative lull, jihadist attacks resumed, inflicting a toll of more than 200 civilian and military deaths over the past three months.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2022 17:26 UTC