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Islamist insurgency

September 28, 2023

New coup d’état in Burkina Faso thwarted, military junta claims

Burkina Faso’s military junta said a coup plot was thwarted on Tuesday.

Burkina Faso junta
August 8, 2023

Mali’s troops, foreign partners target women to ‘spread terror’: UN report

The UN Human Rights Office in May accused Malian troops and “armed white men” of likely executing at least 500 people.

Malian troops in action
February 22, 2023

Three UN peacekeepers from Senegal killed in central Mali

Mali is struggling to stem an Islamist insurgency that took root after a 2012 coup and has since spread from the West African country’s arid north.

Senegalese UN Peace Keepers
January 27, 2022

Coup: West African leaders to hold summit on Mali, Burkina Faso

The coup in Burkina Faso is West Africa’s third in nine months, following military takeovers in Mali and Guinea.

ECOWAS leaders

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