July 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, warned this Sunday of a deterioration in the security situation in the Sahel and the Gulf of Guinea after the latest jihadist attacks in Togo and Burkina Faso.
Togo has been the scene of a week of violence that began with the death of seven children in the city of Margba in a bombing carried out by mistake and continued with a series of jihadist attacks on Thursday that would have left around fifteen dead, according to local sources.
Meanwhile, in Burkina Faso, the jihadists this Friday blew up the bridges of Woussé and Naré, of strategic commercial importance for the country, while regional NGOs warn that the roads linking the capitals of Niger and Burkina Faso, Niamey and Ouagadougou, which serve as the main import and export routes to the countries of the Gulf of Guinea, they are no longer safe.
“The attack in Togo in which several civilians were killed and the blowing up of bridges in Burkina Faso with the aim of further isolating the civilian population show an aggravation of the threat in the Sahel and in the Gulf of Guinea”, he stated in this sense Borrell on his Twitter account.
“The EU”, he added, “remains fully mobilized to combat this scourge”.
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