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Burkina Faso: Arming Civilians to Fight Jihadists. What Could Go Wrong?
The New Humanitarian, 9 March 2020
'So we join and fight terrorism and then what happens?' Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Dozens Dead in Attack Attributed to Militia Group
The New Humanitarian, 10 March 2020
Local media attributed the killings to the Koglweogo self-defence group. Read more »
Burkina Faso - When Civilians Take Up Arms Against Militants
Passed by parliament in January 2020, Burkina Faso's new "Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland" law is a response to a spike in violence that has forced more than 750,000 people to flee their homes - almost all since the beginning of last year - and overwhelmed the country's ill-equipped and demoralised security forces, writes Sam Mednick for the New Humanitarian.
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Burkina Faso's Parliament has voted to provide local volunteers with "light weapons" after a terrorist attack on two villages left 32 civilians dead. No one has claimed ... Read more »
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Officials say gunmen killed 24 people, including a pastor, and wounded at least 18 near a Protestant church in the village of Pansi in Burkina Faso's northern Yagha province,. Read more »
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More than a dozen civilians have died after a bus hit an improvised explosive device in northern Burkina Faso. Most of those who were killed were students who were reportedly on ... Read more »
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President Roch Marc Christian Kabore says fighting between security forces and militants in the town of Arbinda, left 80 militants dead as well as seven soldiers. Read more »
