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The military convoy set out with the task of supplying cities and military bases in eastern Burkina Faso besieged by jihadist groups. [4] The first group of soldiers, made up of Rapid Intervention Brigades 5 and 9 (BIR), left the city of Dori on April 27 and headed out towards Mansila . [ 5 ]
Military authorities who seized power in 2022 have been tight-lipped. Junta members told state television on Aug. 25 that civilians and military personnel were killed, but did not provide a death ...
The United States said it has cut and suspended assistance to Burkina Faso’s military but still supplies nonlethal equipment to civilian security forces such as the national police. In January ...
The West African country's ruling military junta, which seized power in a 2022 coup, is accused of suppressing dissent by kidnapping and conscripting critics, and urging citizens to report ...
The International Institute for Strategic Studies estimated in 2011–12 [needs update] that Burkina Faso had 6,400 personnel in L'Armée de Terre in three military regions, one tank battalion (two tank platoons), five infantry regiments that may be under-strength, and an airborne regiment. Artillery and engineer battalions are also listed.
Since 2019, northern Burkina Faso has been embroiled in two jihadist insurgencies by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, both predominantly-Fulani organizations that attack civilians along ethnic and religious lines. [1]
More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta had seized control of Burkina Faso after detaining the democratically elected president following a ...
The Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (PMSR) [1] has been the ruling military junta of Burkina Faso since the January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état. [2] Originally it was led by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, but he was overthrown by dissatisfied junta members during the September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état.