Burkina: série d'attaques jihadistes dans le nord et l'est, au moins une dizaine de morts
Burkina Faso was targeted over the weekend by a series of attacks by suspected jihadists targeting military detachments in the north and east of the country, which left at least ten people dead, security sources said on Sunday.
Burkina Faso, ruled since September 2022 by an authoritarian junta headed by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has been facing violence from jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State for more than a decade.
On Saturday, the detachment in Titao, the capital of Loroum province (north), was "targeted by a group of several hundred terrorists", a security source in the region told AFP.
Although this source did not specify a human toll, it claims that "technical installations" and part of the military camp were destroyed.
Heavy reports - suggesting dozens of soldiers killed - were circulating on social media, but AFP had not been able to independently verify them by Sunday afternoon.
The junta is no longer communicating about the jihadist attacks that continue to regularly bring grief to the country.
The Interior Ministry of Ghana, a neighboring country of Burkina Faso, said it had received "disturbing" information about a "truck of tomato traders (...) caught in a terrorist attack in Titao" on Saturday.
The Ghanaian embassy in Burkina Faso is "in contact with Burkinabe authorities to visit the site of the attack to obtain details and identify Ghanaians caught in the attack," the ministry added.
According to the same security source, another military post, this time in Tandjari, in the Eastern region, was also attacked on Saturday.
"Several losses" are to be deplored among the water and forestry agents who held this position, explained this source, who believes that "this series of attacks is not insignificant".
"There seems to be coordination taking place among the jihadists," she judged.
Another security source indicated that on Thursday, a "terrorist group attacked the (military) detachment in Bilanga" in the east of the country.
"A large part of the detachment was ransacked. There were about ten deaths" among the soldiers and civilian auxiliaries of the army, according to this source.
A local source in the region confirmed the attack and later mentioned "damage in the town" of Bilanga and the presence of the attackers until the following day.
Although the junta promised upon taking power that security would return to Burkina Faso within a few months, the country remains caught in a spiral of violence that has caused tens of thousands of civilian and military deaths since 2015, more than half of them in the last three years, according to the NGO Acled, which tracks victims of conflict.
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