The attack occurs in the aftermath of the designation of Captain Ibrahim Traoré as president of the transition by national foundations.
Le Monde with AFP
The security situation remains bad in Burkina Faso. At least three soldiers and eight civilian army auxiliaries were killed on Saturday October 15, during an attack awarded to jihadists in the north of the country, agency France-Presse for security sources.
“An ambush of terrorist armed groups has targeted a mixed patrol of soldiers and volunteers for the defense of the fatherland” or VDP, army’s auxiliaries, “in the commune of Bouroum [North]. The balance sheet is Three soldiers and eight VDPs fallen, “a security source told AFP. Another source of the security services confirmed, speaking of “provisional assessment”.
According to this last source, “the hanging took place in the locality of Silmangué, in the province of Namentenga”. The provisional assessment reports a dozen deaths, two wounded and two missing, she added.
military coup
This attack occurs two weeks after a military coup on September 30, perpetrated by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, against Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, and after the designation of Captain Traoré as president of the Transition by national foundations.
It was the second coup in Burkina Faso in eight months, linked to the security situation in this country in the grip of jihadist violence for seven years.
On January 24, soldiers led by Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba, grouped together in a junta called a patriotic movement for safeguarding and catering (MPSR), had overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, accused of incapacity Faced with jihadist attacks that have multiplied in Burkina.
“emergencies”
They did not stop in eight months and, faced with the constant degradation of the situation, a new putsch took place on September 30, which brought to the head of the MPSR Ibrahim Traoré, in order to “refocus the transition on security emergencies “, according to the junta.
Burkina Faso has been taken since 2015 in a spiral of violence attributed to jihadist movements affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group since 2015. These regular attacks have killed thousands of deaths and forced some two million people to flee their homes. More than 40 % of the territory escapes the control of the State, especially on the side of borders with Mali and Niger.