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Burkina Faso: Village Emptied As Thousands Flee Jihadist Violence
RFI, 9 June 2021
More than 7,000 people have fled a village in Burkina Faso that was attacked over the weekend, adding to tens of thousands already displaced by a jihadist insurgency in the… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: 'Massacres Are Intended to Secure Control Over Strategic Areas'
Agenzia Fides, 7 June 2021
"The country is in shock. Such a massacre has not occurred since 2015", say sources from the Apostolic Nunciature from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to Agenzia Fides,… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: Thousands Flee As Series of Attacks Leaves at Least 45 Dead
VOA, 7 May 2021
A series of attacks by unidentified armed groups in Burkina Faso over the past 10 days has left 45 people dead and forced 17,500 people to flee their homes, the U.N. refugee agency… Read more »
Burkina Faso Village Emptied As Thousands Flee Violence
More than 7,000 people have fled a village in Burkina Faso that was attacked over the weekend, adding to tens of thousands already displaced by a militant insurgency in the country.
More than 138 people were killed in an attack on the village of Solhan on Saturday, and 40 were seriously wounded, though local sources put the death toll higher, making it the deadliest attack since the start of an insurgency in 2015 that has been targeting civilians and soldiers.
Burkina Faso has seen attacks from militant organisations, including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) and the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM), which on Tuesday said it "completely denies any involvement" in the Solhan killings.
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The UN refugee agency says survivors of the massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in the ... Read more »
