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2022-01-06 Africa North
Jihadist raids leave over 500,000 Burkina children without schools
[AlAhram] More than half a million children in 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...
are unable to go to school because of attacks by jihadists, the government said on Wednesday.

Armed Islamists have forced the closure of 3,280 schools -- nearly one in seven nationwide -- affecting 511,221 students and 14,901 teachers, government front man Alkassoum Maiga said after a cabinet meeting.

The landlocked Sahel state has been battling jihadist forces of Evil since 2015, when bully boyz started to mount cross-border raids from neighbouring Mali.

More than 2,000 people have died, according to a toll compiled by AFP.

The national emergency aid body Conasure says that 1.5 million people, nearly two-thirds of them children, were internally displaced as of November 30.
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