Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
An ongoing war and civil conflict between the Government of Burkina Faso and Islamist rebels began in August 2015 and has led to the displacement of over 2 million people and the deaths of at least 10,000 civilians and combatants.
| Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso | |||||||||
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| Part of the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the spillover of the Mali War | |||||||||
Smoke rising from French Embassy in Ouagadougou, 2 March 2018, during the 2018 Ouagadougou attacks. | |||||||||
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France (until 2023) Supported by:
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20,000 dead (estimates) 2.06 million displaced | |||||||||
The war has been interpreted as being the Burkinabè theatre of the insurgency in the Sahel.
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