The West caught trying to overthrow Ibrahim Traore
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@ephraimfelix427411 hours ago
They have turned Africa to a battle ground because of resources and they are fronting it as a religious war
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
Islamist militants show 'unprecedented coordination' in Burkina Faso attacks
By Jessica Donati and Anait Miridzhanian
Militants kill dozens in past week, diplomatic notes say
Attacks carried out by Al Qaeda–linked JNIM, they say
One says the attacks show 'unprecedented coordination'
DAKAR, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Islamist militants have killed dozens of soldiers and civilians and overrun an army detachment over the past week in coordinated attacks across multiple regions of Burkina Faso, according to internal reports by two diplomatic missions reviewed by Reuters.
The operations by Al Qaeda–linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin show the JNIM is increasingly able to mobilise across large swathes of territory at one time, said the reports, which described a list of locations and places that came under assault.
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Burkina Faso's military rulers seized power in a coup in 2022, promising to improve security. But militants' attacks have increased in the West African country as state forces battle an insurgency that has spread across the Sahel from Mali.
The assaults were on several towns in the north and east including Bilanga, Titao, Tandjari and Nare, the diplomatic reports said. One also described an assault in the eastern city of Fada N'Gourma and flagged another in the northern Ouahigouya area.
JNIM has said it killed scores of troops from the Burkinabe army in attacks in the past week, U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday.
Burkina authorities did not respond to a request for comment on the assaults or casualty reports.
INJURED GHANAIANS RETURN HOME
In the northern town of Titao, militants attacked an army base and set a market on fire, the internal reports said. Nearly 80 soldiers and pro-government militia members were killed, one said. The other said about 10 civilians were killed there.
The dead civilians included eight tomato traders, Ghana's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
SITE quoted a media unit for JNIM as saying the insurgents had seized military vehicles, guns and other possessions in the assaults.
More than a decade of insurgencies in the Sahel has displaced millions and engendered economic collapse, with violence pushing further south towards West Africa's coast.
JNIM claimed nearly 500 attacks in Burkina Faso in 2025 and nearly 300 in Mali, SITE's director, Rita Katz, said in a social media post on LinkedIn.
By Jessica Donati and Anait Miridzhanian
Militants kill dozens in past week, diplomatic notes say
Attacks carried out by Al Qaeda–linked JNIM, they say
One says the attacks show 'unprecedented coordination'
DAKAR, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Islamist militants have killed dozens of soldiers and civilians and overrun an army detachment over the past week in coordinated attacks across multiple regions of Burkina Faso, according to internal reports by two diplomatic missions reviewed by Reuters.
The operations by Al Qaeda–linked Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin show the JNIM is increasingly able to mobilise across large swathes of territory at one time, said the reports, which described a list of locations and places that came under assault.
The Reuters Inside Track newsletter is your essential guide to the biggest events in global sport. Sign up here.
Burkina Faso's military rulers seized power in a coup in 2022, promising to improve security. But militants' attacks have increased in the West African country as state forces battle an insurgency that has spread across the Sahel from Mali.
The assaults were on several towns in the north and east including Bilanga, Titao, Tandjari and Nare, the diplomatic reports said. One also described an assault in the eastern city of Fada N'Gourma and flagged another in the northern Ouahigouya area.
JNIM has said it killed scores of troops from the Burkinabe army in attacks in the past week, U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday.
Burkina authorities did not respond to a request for comment on the assaults or casualty reports.
INJURED GHANAIANS RETURN HOME
In the northern town of Titao, militants attacked an army base and set a market on fire, the internal reports said. Nearly 80 soldiers and pro-government militia members were killed, one said. The other said about 10 civilians were killed there.
The dead civilians included eight tomato traders, Ghana's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
SITE quoted a media unit for JNIM as saying the insurgents had seized military vehicles, guns and other possessions in the assaults.
More than a decade of insurgencies in the Sahel has displaced millions and engendered economic collapse, with violence pushing further south towards West Africa's coast.
JNIM claimed nearly 500 attacks in Burkina Faso in 2025 and nearly 300 in Mali, SITE's director, Rita Katz, said in a social media post on LinkedIn.
The parts of Africa that embraced or allowed that Arabic religion Islam to be adopted by their people are now facing constant problems of Islamist bandits and rebels..these are not problems you find in the quiet Christian parts of Africa, but primarily the Islamic ones..
Unless the eliminate that Arabized religion from their psyche they will never recover..Islam is by nature is a violent belief system that cannot co-exist with anyone unless it dominates.
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