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Vol 60 No 21

Published 25th October 2019


Burkina Faso

Backs to the wall

The speed of the jihadists’ campaign has caught the government off-guard and exposed the woeful inadequacy of the security forces

This year the country has experienced more violent attacks in six months than the whole of the previous three years, causing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes while the army is continually on the back foot.

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