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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:42 am
by sharminsultana
Dabire, appointed in 2018, had been tasked with stemming the bloodshed, which began when groups linked to Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State group began launching attacks from neighboring Mali three years more early.

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But the country’s ill-equipped security forces fought a ruthless and highly mobile enemy.


At least 13 Burkina Faso defense volunteers were killed in an attack in the north of the country on Thursday, security sources told AFP.

The deadly violence peaked on November 14 when 57 people, including 53 gendarmes, were killed in the north of the country.

Two weeks before their attack, the gendarmes had warned the general staff that they lacked supplies and that they had to trap animals to eat them.

They had waited in vain for a rescue force for several days when phone number library they were attacked by hundreds of fighters in vans and motorcycles, according to reports of the battle.

On Thursday evening, the armies of Burkina Faso and neighboring Niger said they had killed around 100 “terrorists” during a joint military operation against jihadists on the border between November 25 and December 9.

They had also dismantled two bases, one on each side of the border, they said in a joint statement.