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| 2021-06-26 | |
| [PM News Nigeria] Child soldiers aged between 12 and 14 carried out the massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed, the United Nations and the government said. Armed assailants raided the village of Solhan
It was the worst attack in years in an area plagued by jihadists linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda. Government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said the majority of the attackers were children, prompting condemnation from the U.N. Despite interventions from U.N. peacekeepers and international armed forces, attacks by Islamist extremists continue unabated across West Africa’s Sahel region, including neighbouring Mali and Niger. Local officials in Burkina Faso’s north, where jihadists control large areas, said child soldiers have been used by Islamist groups over the past year, but this month’s attack was by far the highest profile case. | |
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