Around 20 killed in Burkina suspected jihadist attack
By AFP
August 7, 2023 11:41 PM
Around 20 people were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Monday.
The Sunday attack in the Centre-East region near the Togolese border killed "around 20 people, mostly traders," a security source told AFP while a trader put the toll at 25, and another said there were a dozen wounded.
More than 16,000 civilians, troops and police have died in jihadist attacks, according to an NGO count, including more than 5,000 since the start of this year.
More than two million people have also been displaced within their country, making it one of the worst internal displacement crises in Africa.
Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in Burkina Faso in a September 2022 coup which ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who in January that year had toppled the country's last elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
The motive for both coups was anger at failures to stem a jihadist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives since spilling over from neighbouring Mali in 2015.
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