Aug. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Burkina Faso Army announced this Friday that more than a hundred terrorists have been “neutralized”, that is, they have ended up dead, wounded or detained, during operations carried out from July 15 to August 15 in the country African.
Specifically, the military has verified fifty incapacitated terrorists in a military counterattack after an offensive on a military base in Kelbo (province of Soum, in the northeast of the country), to which are added another 34 in Boulounga (province of Bam, in the north of the country), and another 30 in other operations carried out in the northern, eastern, central-eastern, Sahel, and central-western regions, according to a statement collected by the Burkina24 portal.
In general terms, and during the period evaluated, the Army has observed, compared to last month, “a decrease in the number of terrorist incidents, as well as a decrease in the number of civilian victims.” The military has verified five dead civilians and twenty soldiers and volunteers who died in the assaults by terrorist and jihadist groups.
Burkina Faso, led by a military junta since a coup in January this year, has generally experienced a significant increase in insecurity since 2015, leading to a wave of internally displaced persons and refugees to other developing countries. the region.
The attacks, the work of both the affiliate of Al Qaeda and that of the Islamic State in the region, have also contributed to increasing inter-community violence and have caused self-defense groups to flourish, to which the Burkinabe government has added ‘volunteers ‘ to help in the fight against terrorism.
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