Jihadist attack in Burkina Faso kills 14 - report
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- Burkina Faso
A jihadist attack in Burkina Faso has killed 14 people, according to news agency AFP.
#BREAKING 14 killed in jihadist attack in Burkina Faso: security sources pic.twitter.com/THrpbU5wGR
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 27, 2019
Last month also, jihadist fighters killed 17 civilians in a nighttime raid on a village in the troubled north of the West African country.
Burkina Faso has suffered from increasingly frequent and deadly attacks attributed to a number of jihadist groups, including the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) and Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.
The raids began in 2015 in the north before targeting the capital Ouagadougou and other regions, notably in the east.
Some Westerners have been taken a hostage and in some cases killed. Former colonial ruler France has deployed 4,500 troops in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad in a mission codenamed Barkhane to help local forces flush out jihadists.
Burkina Faso has also joined four other Sahel nations (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger) in an initiative aimed at creating a joint 5,000-troop anti-terror force, also backed by France.
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