After a suspec­ted milita­nt attack trigge­r the state of unrest­OUAGADOUGOU: The president of Burkina Faso on Sunday visited the scene of ethnic clashes in which 47 people were killed earlier this week. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore went to the village of Yirgou in central-northern Burkina Faso where on Tuesday and Wednesday 47 people were killed after a suspected militant attack triggered the unrest, according to the government. Residents said that after the militant attack, villagers, who are from the Mossi ethnic group, attacked a nearby camp of nomadic Fulani herders, accusing them of being accomplices to the militants. Burkina Faso lies in the heart of the sprawling, impoverished Sahel, on the southern rim of the Sahara. Hundreds of schools shut in Burkina Faso over militant attacksMilitant attacks began in northern Burkina Faso in 2015 and then spread to the east, near the border with Togo and Benin.

Source: The Express Tribune January 06, 2019 06:22 UTC