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  • Hundreds Killed by Islamic Jihadists
    A dirt street in what appears to be a village.
    A street in Burkina Faso.
    Photo: Flickr / Jurken (cc)
     

    Since 2015, the West African nation of Burkina Faso has experienced numerous violent attacks by militants linked to al-Qaeda in a deadly Islamic insurgency that has spread from neighbouring Mali. In what is now the single biggest massacre since the start of the ongoing conflict, as many as 400 people were slaughtered during a raid on August 24th.