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Burkina Faso announces the death of twelve militiamen, including the leader of an armed group in the north of the country

MADRID, 31 May.

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Burkina Faso announces the death of twelve militiamen, including the leader of an armed group in the north of the country

MADRID, 31 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Armed Forces of Burkina Faso announced this Monday that on Thursday they killed twelve militiamen by air strikes, including Tidiane Djbrilou Dicko, leader of an armed group, in the commune of Tongomayel, in the province of Soum, in the north of the country. country.

"It was several months of work by the intelligence services that made this action possible," said a security source, adding that the group led by Djibrilou Dicko was preparing to attack a supply convoy from the city of Djibo, perhaps and as reported by the French station Radio France International (RFI).

According to police sources, Tidiane Djibrilou Dicko was known locally as a "very cruel" man and "had a lot of influence on young people, especially in the south of Djibo," a senior officer in the Burkina Faso Armed Forces said.

The Burkina Faso Army bombed a "terrorist" group on Thursday that was preparing to attack a convoy on the Bourzanga-Namsiguia axis, as confirmed by the Burkina Faso news agency AIB.

The same agency has reported that in June 2021, Djibrilou Dicko left the ranks of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) to join the Group in Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) and led a terrorist attack on January 25 2020 against his hometown Silgadji (30 km from Bourzanga), killing around forty people.

Burkina Faso, led by a military junta since the January coup against then-president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, has generally experienced a significant increase in insecurity since 2015, leading to a wave of internally displaced persons. and refugees to other countries in the region.

The attacks, the work of both the Al Qaeda branch and the Islamic State branch 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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