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Africa Subsaharan
Armed attackers kill 100 civilians in Burkina Faso village raid
2021-06-05
[JPost] Armed assailants killed around 100 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in northern Burkina Faso, the government said on Saturday.

The attackers struck during the night on Friday, killing residents of the village of Solhan,
... in Yagha Province near the border with Niger, meaning either ISIS-linked Boko Haram/ISWAP or Al Qaeda in North Africa-linked JNIM...
burning homes and the market, the government statement said, describing them as terrorists.
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