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Two Burkina soldiers killed in blast near Ivory Coast
[AlAhram] Two soldiers in Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
 were killed on Saturday in a kaboom in the southwestern Cascades region near the Ivory Coast border, security sources said.

The explosion is the latest in a series of attacks generally attributed to jihadists.

"A team on a security mission was the target of a terrorist attack on Saturday. Two elements were killed by a homemade device which went kaboom! as they passed by," a security source told AFP.

Another source confirmed the "loss of two soldiers".

Elsewhere, in eastern Sakoani two more soldiers were maimed in another explosion.

Earlier this week, five soldiers on patrol in the north of the country were killed by an improvised bomb.

A jihadist insurgency in neighbouring Mali spilt over into Burkina in 2015.

The gangs are linked to al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
More than 1,500 people have died in the attacks in Burkina Faso and at least 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes. Most of the attacks have been in the north and east, near the borders with Mali and Niger.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-10-03
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