The city of the north of the country has been besieged for seven months by armed groups. A refunding convoy under escort, the first since July, has been attacked.
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The city was rushing, impatient. We savor in advance the dish of Tô, the porridge of Mil, which we would soon share with the family. The taste of sugar, for the wealthiest, that one would put in his tea. The inhabitants of Djibo, in northern Burkina Faso, watched the red track leading to Ugadougou, the capital, located 200 kilometers, hoping to see on the horizon the procession of trucks of goods who came to garnish the empty shops.
las, the convoy escorted by the army which had to supply the besieged city for seven months by jihadists will not arrive. On the road, he was the target of a violent attack on Monday, September 26. Dozens of heavy goods vehicles have burned with their cargoes. At least eleven soldiers have been killed and fifty civilians are still missing, according to a provisional official assessment. According to several media, French planes of the “Barkhane” force intervened in reinforcement, at the request of the Burkinabé authorities.
On Wednesday, the Minister Defense Defense Silas Keïta denounced “unhappy complicities” behind the ambush, and assured that operations were underway to send resources as quickly as possible to Djibo. Chief town of the Soum province, the city is supplied with droppings. The last convoy arrived in July. Set in early September, he was hit by the explosion of an artisanal mine that left 35 dead.
Trucks attacked Monday transported several hundred tonnes of basic necessities: millet bags, rice, oil cans, soap, medicines. According to our information, the attackers awaited the passage of the procession, in a camp abandoned by the army in Gaskindé, about twenty kilometers from Djibo.
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“The military tried to defend themselves but the terrorists were too numerous, so we got off the buses and we started running in the bush. It was shooting in all directions, people fell one by one From me, “says a survivor, attached by phone. This 64 -year -old man says he walked twenty kilometers to the nearest city, with his two children injured by bullets, cheek and kidney. That day, hundreds of travelers like him took advantage of the convoy to join their home in Djibo.
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