At least 19 people were killed, including nine Army aides, in two suspected terrorist attacks. processed over the weekend in the towns of Dembo and Yargatenga in Burkina Faso.
In the first attack carried out last Thursday, close to a hundred gunmen on trucks and motorcycles opened fire He killed seven people, all of them Fatherland Defense Volunteers (VDP), in the northwest town of Dembo, Al24 News reported. On Sunday, another suspected terrorist group attacked the town of Yargatenga, in the far east of the country, near the border with Togo and Ghana, killing 12 people, two of whom were the VDP.
Burkina Faso, run by a military junta since the January coup against then-president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, has experienced a significant increase in insecurity since 2015, often leading to a wave of internally displaced people and refugees to other countries in the region.
attacks, both al-Qaeda-linked and Islamic State-linked They have also contributed to the rise of intercommunal violence in the region and have led to the development of self-defense groups, to which the Burkinabe government has added “volunteers” to help fight terrorism.