AFP, OUAGADOUGOUAn ambush on Wednesday on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of violence in the west African nation. On Wednesday morning “unidentified armed individuals” ambushed five buses carrying local employees, contractors and suppliers of Samafo, a mining company, Est Region Governor Saidou Sanou said. It was the third deadly attack on Canadian firm Semafo, which operates two mines in Burkina Faso, in 15 months. Burkina Faso’s northern provinces have been battling a nearly five-year wave of violence that came from Mali. The attacks — typically hit-and-run raids on villages, road mines and suicide bombings — have claimed nearly 700 lives across the country since early 2015.

Source: Taipei Times November 07, 2019 16:07 UTC