{"id":15355,"date":"2024-03-03T15:39:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:39:10","slug":"dozens-of-people-killed-in-attacks-in-burkina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/dozens-of-people-killed-in-attacks-in-burkina\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of People Killed&#8217; in Attacks in Burkina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 170 people were &#8220;killed&#8221; in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor said on Sunday as jihadist violence flares in the junta-ruled country.<br \/>\nOn that same day, February 25, separate attacks on a mosque in eastern Burkina and a Catholic church in the north left dozens more dead.<br \/>\nAly Benjamin Coulibaly said he had received reports of the attacks on the villages of Komsilga, Nodin and Soroe in Yatenga province on February 25, with a provisional toll of &#8220;around 170 people killed&#8221;.<br \/>\nLocal security sources said the attacks were separate from deadly incidents that happened on the same day at a mosque in the rural community of Natiaboani and a church in the village of Essakane.<br \/>\nAuthorities have yet to release an official death toll for those attacks but a senior church official said at the time that at least 15 civilians were killed in that attack.<br \/>\nThe violence has killed almost 20,000 people and displaced more than two million in Burkina Faso, one of the world&#8217;s poorest countries situated in the Sahel, a region wracked by instability.<br \/>\nAnger at the state&#8217;s inability to end the insecurity played a major role in two military coups in 2022. Current strongman Ibrahim Traore has made the fight against rebel groups a priority.<br \/>\nThere were a number of attacks on February 25, notably against a military detachment in Tankoualou in the east, a rapid response battalion in Kongoussi in the north and soldiers in the northern region of Ouahigouya.<br \/>\nIn response, the army and members of the Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP), a civilian force that supports the military, launched operations that were able &#8220;to neutralise several hundred terrorists&#8221;, according to security sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Around 170 people were &#8220;killed&#8221; in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor said on Sunday as jihadist violence flares in the junta-ruled country. On that same day, February 25, separate attacks on a mosque in eastern Burkina and a Catholic church in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15357,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions\/15357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}