Around 170 people were "executed" in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional public prosecutor said Sunday. Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pick-up truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, in the country's restive north, in this file photo taken in February 2020. Local security sources said the attacks were separate from deadly incidents at a mosque and a church in northern Burkina Faso that also happened a week ago. Burkina Faso has been grappling with a jihadist insurgency waged by rebels affiliated with al Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) group that spilled over from neighbouring Mali in 2015. The violence has killed almost 20,000 people and displaced more than two million in Burkina Faso, one of the world's poorest countries situated in the Sahel, a region wracked by instability.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 03, 2024 13:55 UTC