Burkina Faso announced on 16 January that over 1 million internally displaced people had made their way back to 165,375 households and 697 localities by 31 December 2024 after the new government eliminated t*rrorist death squads in the country’s west, notably the Cascades and Southwest regions. Burkina Faso’s revolutionary government now has its eyes on liberating the northeast.
Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré considers the fight against terrorism a war of decolonisation. Alliance of Sahel States (AES) member states—Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger—have accused former coloniser France and Ukraine of providing support for trrorist organisations, an issue that the AES has brought before the United Nations Security Council. The 2011 NATO invasion of Libya destabilised the country, allowing its arms to flood the Sahara Desert, leading to a spike in trrorism-related deaths.
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https://www.aujourd8.net/burkina-faso-1-010-136-deplaces-sont-retournes-dans-697-localites/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C96QQ28PJNc
https://www.un.int/mali/sites/www.un.int/files/Mali/rev_allocution_mali_agnu_24_septembre_2022_2.pdf
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/burkina-faso-mali-niger-accuse-ukraine-of-supporting-terrorism-in-sahel/3308995
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GTI-2022-web-09062022.pdf