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Africa North

Brutal Attacks in Northern Burkina Faso Claim 170 Lives, Including Women and Children

2024-03-04

Either Al Qaeda-linked GSIM/JNIM or ISIS. With no information given, how is one to know?

[Garowe] Authorities 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 used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
have confirmed that about 170 people, including women and kiddies, were killed in "massive bloody attacks" that targeted three villages in the north of the country on a single day last week. Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been experiencing jihadist violence attributed to gangs linked to 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....
, resulting in nearly 20,000 deaths and over two million displaced individuals.

On the same day, February 25, a separate attack targeted a mosque and another hit a church in this West African nation. The Public Prosecutor of Ouahigouya in the north, Ali Benjamin Coulibaly, stated on Sunday that he was informed of "massive bloody attacks in the villages of Komsilga, Nouda, and Soro" in Yatenga Province, resulting in the execution of around 170 individuals. Additional injuries and material damages were reported, though the attackers’ identities remain unspecified.

Coulibaly has directed the judicial police to launch an investigation to clarify the circumstances of these condemnations and incidents. He urged anyone with information about these events to contact the authorities. An investigation team visited the affected villages on February 29 to gather all evidence and reach conclusions.

Residents in the area, contacted by a news agency, confirmed that dozens of women and kiddies were among the victims. These attacks were separate from other ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful incidents on the same day, including assaults on a mosque in Natiaboani in the east and a Catholic church in the village of Isekaani in the north, resulting in dozens and at least 15 deaths, respectively.

Security sources highlighted other attacks on February 25, including those on the Tankoualou military detachment in the east and the 16th Rapid Intervention Battalion near Kongoussi in the north, where the army and civilian supporters reportedly neutralized several hundred terrorists.

Security Minister Mohammed Sana acknowledged in a national television statement that the country witnessed several coordinated and simultaneous attacks over the previous weekend. He attributed the change in enemy tactics to the destruction of terrorist bases, and training camps, and efforts to cut off their funding sources and control supply lines.

Since 2015, Burkina Faso, now governed by the military following a 2022 coup, has faced jihadist violence leading to nearly 20,000 deaths and over two million displacements. In January alone, 439 individuals were killed in such incidents, according to estimates by the non-governmental organization ACLED, which tracks conflict-related casualties worldwide.

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