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2019-05-27 Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen raid Burkina Faso church, kill four
Gotta get those Ramadan points while the getting’s good. It’ll be over soon, and then it’s back to normal for jihadis until next year.
[AlAhram] Gunmen burst into a church in northern Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
on Sunday and rubbed out four people, a security source said - at least the fourth attack on Christians in the past month.

Other worshippers were maimed in the assault on the morning service at the church near the town of Titao, the source added.

No one has grabbed credit for the attacks which threaten to upend traditionally peaceful relations between the Moslem majority and Christians who make up a quarter of Burkinabes.

The government has blamed unnamed terrorist groups operating in the country and Africa's surrounding Sahel region
... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas...

Islamist Death Eaters based in Mali have regrouped after a French intervention in 2013 and now use the country’s north and centre as launchpads for attacks on neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.

Gunmen killed a Protestant pastor and five congregants in another church in northern Burkina in late April. A Catholic priest and five parishioners were killed in an attack in the central town of Dablo on May 12 and another four Catholics died in an attack two days later in the northern town of Ouahigouya.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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