A fresh discovery has it that at least 51 soldiers were killed on Friday, February 17, 2023, in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, where attacks by "terrorist" armed groups have intensified since the beginning of the year.
This ambush in the Sahel region bordering Mali and Niger, the provisional toll of which was announced by the army on Monday, could prove to be the deadliest ever committed against the security forces since that of November 2021 in Inata (north) where 57 gendarmes were then killed after unsuccessfully appealing for help.
As at Monday evening, 51 fallen soldiers were found as reported by the Burkinabè army in a press release. According to the statement, "a moving military patrol was the victim of a complex attack on Friday between Deou and Oursi (Oudalan province) in the Sahel region".
The army affirms that the operations continue with an intensification of the air actions which made it possible to neutralize a hundred terrorists and to destroy their materials.
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, transitional president resulting from a coup d'etat on September 30, 2022, then set himself the objective of "reconquering" the approximately 40% of Burkinabe territory controlled by jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and to the Islamic State.
But since he took power, attacks attributed to these groups have only escalated.
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