OUAGADOUGOU, April 16 (Reuters) - Unidentified assailants killed 40 people and wounded 33 others in an attack on the army and volunteer defence forces in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement on Sunday. It comes nine days after gunmen killed 44 people in the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in the north of the West African country. Six soldiers and 34 members of a volunteer defence force were killed in Saturday's attack, the statement said. The unrest in Burkina Faso triggered two coups last year by the military, which has vowed to retake control of the country but has failed to stop attacks. The violence has since spread into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger and threatens to destabilise coastal countries further afield.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 16, 2023 14:20 UTC