Last week, Burkina Faso President Paul-Henri Damiba was deposed by Captain Ibrahim Traoré and his supporters in a successful coup, the second in the country in the past year. Traoré cited Damiba’s lack of progress in defeating Islamic extremists—the...
Violent attacks by Islamist extremists killed approximately 50 people in Burkina Faso last week as the country’s security continue to deteriorate. The attacks were staged between the rural communes of Madjoari and Pama, near Benin and Togo. No...
The leader of Burkina Faso’s recent military coup, Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba, has called on the international community to back the country in its fight against militants linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS. Last week, the military deposed Burkina Faso’s...
The security situation in Africa’s Sahel region continues to deteriorate. In January 2020, the U.N. envoy to West Africa reported that terrorist attacks have increased fivefold in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger since 2016. In 2019 alone, there were...
One year after a deadly attack in Mali, CEP is releasing updated resources on the Islamic extremist groups responsible for the attack, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and al-Mourabitoun, as well as Mali's struggles to combat extremists while...
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