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Africa-Press – Burkina Faso. <\/strong><\/span>Forty-four civilians have been killed by \u00ab\u00a0armed terrorist groups\u00a0\u00bb in two villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, near the Niger border, a regional governor said Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n

The provisional toll of \u00ab\u00a0this despicable and barbaric attack\u00a0\u00bb which targeted the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in northeast Burkina Faso overnight Thursday \u00ab\u00a0is 44 civilians killed and others wounded,\u00a0\u00bb said Rodolphe Sorgho, lieutenant-governor of the Sahel region.<\/p>\n

Sorgho said that 31 people had died in Kourakou and 13 in Tondobi.<\/p>\n

The regional official said that an army offensive put \u00ab\u00a0out of action the armed terrorist groups\u00a0\u00bb that carried out the killings.<\/p>\n

The governor also assured that \u00ab\u00a0actions to stabilise the area are under way\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n

The impoverished Sahel country is grappling with a seven-year-old campaign by jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

A resident of Kourakou told AFP that \u00ab\u00a0a large number of terrorists burst into the village\u00a0\u00bb late Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0All night long, we heard gunfire. It was on Friday morning that we saw that there were several dozen dead,\u00a0\u00bb he added.<\/p>\n

Locals said the village had been targeted in retaliation for the lynching of two jihadists a few days earlier who had tried to steal cattle.<\/p>\n

It was one of the deadliest attacks since Captain Ibrahim Traore came to power in a coup last September,<\/p>\n

In February 51 soldiers were killed in an attack on Deou, in the far north of the country.<\/p>\n

The latest twin attacks happened close to the village of Seytenga, where 86 civilians were killed last June in one of the bloodiest attacks of a long-running insurgency.<\/p>\n

Burkina Faso’s new military chief this week vowed to step up a \u00ab\u00a0dynamic offensive\u00a0\u00bb against jihadists following a string of insurgent attacks since the start of the year.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0The dynamic offensive under way in the past few weeks will be stepped up to force armed groups to lay down their weapons,\u00a0\u00bb said Colonel Celestin Simpore after a handover ceremony following his appointment last week.<\/p>\n

Since the jihadists launched their campaign from neighbouring Mali in 2015, more than 10,000 civilians, troops and police have been killed, according to one NGO estimate, and at least two million people have been displaced.<\/p>\n

Official figures say jihadists effectively control about 40 percent of the country.<\/p>\n

Frustrations within the military led to two military coups last year. Traore, who came to power in September, has vowed to fight back and recover conquered territory.<\/p>\n

But the jihadists have carried out a succession of raids and ambushes since the start of the year, inflicting heavy tolls on civilians and military-escorted convoys.<\/p>\n

Burkina’s beleaguered army has recently acquired foreign-made drones, and regularly issues video footage of strikes against purported terrorists and troops described as reconquering and securing lost territory.<\/p>\n

Since Traore seized power last year, the activities of all political parties and civil society organisations in the country have been suspended.<\/p>\n

Pour plus d’informations et d’analyses sur la Burkina Faso<\/a>, suivez Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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