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2022-04-25 Africa Subsaharan
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Attacks on Burkina Faso military units kill 15
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[AlAhram] Fifteen people, including nine soldiers, died Sunday in two separate attacks on military units 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...
, the country's army said.
"Terrorist attacks" killed nine people in Gaskinde and six in nearby Pobe Mengao near the Malian border on Sunday morning as assailants targeted military bases and civilians, the army said in a statement.
Five soldiers and four civilians died in Gaskinde, while the Pobe Mengao attack left four soldiers and two civilian auxiliaries dead. Around 30 people were maimed, the statement added.
"The situation in these two areas is now under control," the army said.
Security and local sources had earlier told AFP of around 10 deaths in Gaskinde and significant material damage.
Jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group have regularly carried out attacks in northern and eastern Burkina Faso since 2015, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing almost two million.
Unrest linked to jihadist groups also plagues Burkina Faso's West African neighbours Mali and Niger.
Also on Sunday, a jihadist group claimed three separate attacks on army bases in central Mali that killed six and injured 20.
The latest attack in Burkina Faso comes after an incident where 12 soldiers and four civilian auxiliaries were killed on April 8.
Anger at the government's perceived mishandling of the insurgency was used by the army as a justification for a military coup that ousted former president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January.
New leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has said Burkina Faso's security situation is his priority, but attacks in recent weeks have killed more than 100 people.
The new head of state earlier this month announced the creation of local committees made up of religious leaders and traditional chiefs to initiate dialogue with jihadist groups in a bid to stem the violence.
But the state does not negotiate directly with the fighters and continues its military operations against them. 
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