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Panic As Suspected Jihadists Kill At Least 50 In Burkina Faso

Panic As Suspected Jihadists Kill At Least 50 In Burkina Faso

June 14, 2022 5:27 am

No fewer than 50 civilians have been killed following attacks by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said Monday, in one of the bloodiest clashes since a military coup in January.

‘The army has so far found 50 bodies’ after the village of Seytenga was attacked yesterday, Bilgo said, adding that the toll ‘may rise.’

‘Relatives (of the victims) have returned to Seytenga and may have taken bodies away,’ he told a press conference on Tuesday morning.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Seytenga was the site of bloody fighting last week.

Eleven gendarmes were …

Ten Policemen Murdered In Burkina Faso Jihadist Attack

Ten Policemen Murdered In Burkina Faso Jihadist Attack

June 11, 2022 5:29 am

Suspected jihadists have killed no fewer than 10 police officers overnight in an attack in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, security sources confirmed on Saturday.

‘An outlying gendarmerie post in Seytenga in Seno province was targeted by terrorists last night,’ a source said.

‘About 10 gendarmes (died), four others were wounded and there was major material damage,’ the source revealed, adding that the toll was provisional.

Another security source confirmed the attack, the latest in a string of bloody assaults in the landlocked Sahel state.

The source added that the security forces had routed the assailants in …

Suspected Islamic Jihadists Kill 18 In East Congo Attack

Suspected Islamic Jihadists Kill 18 In East Congo Attack

June 7, 2022 6:06 am

Suspected militants killed at least 18 people in a village raid in eastern Congo as fighting resumed with the M23 rebel group in a neighbouring province.

A local chief and a local human rights group said fighters, believed to be from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), killed residents and burned down houses in the Otomabere village in Irumu territory, Ituri province on Sunday night.

Congolese army spokesman, Jules Ngongo, confirmed the ADF attack without giving a death toll and said Congolese forces were in pursuit of the assailants.

The ADF is a Ugandan militia that moved to eastern Congo in …

Mali President On The Ropes As Jihadist Revolt Mounts

Mali President On The Ropes As Jihadist Revolt Mounts

October 23, 2019 10:46 am

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has few strong cards left to play as he seeks to roll back a jihadist insurgency and mounting public discontent.

Thousands of civilians and soldiers have died since armed Islamists began their revolt in northern Mali in 2012 — a campaign that has spread to the country’s volatile centre and to neighbouring Burkina Faso.

The failure of Mali’s poorly-equipped and the demoralised military is now sparking an outcry, shaking confidence in Keita’s government.

Relatives of dozens of troops killed in twin attacks in central Mali took to the streets on October 2 to accuse the …

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