Burkina junta says army to win back areas lost to rebels

Ouagadougou (AFP) Aug 12, 2022

Burkina Faso’s army will deploy a new strategy to push back jihadist insurgents and recapture lost territory, the defence minister said Friday.

The landlocked Sahel state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and forced some 1.9 million people to leave their homes.

Burkina Faso’s insurgency has been concentrated in the north and east, led
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