A vehicle of the Burkina Faso Army patrols a rural area in the Soum region in northern Burkina Faso on November 14, 2019. (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI / AFP)
Burkina Faso’s Parliament voted Tuesday to provide local volunteers with “light weapons” after a terrorist attack on two villages left 32 civilians dead. No one has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack that the government blames on a “terrorist group.” Suspected Islamic extremists attacked a market in the village of Nagraogo and burned it to the ground. Four others in Alamou village were also killed. Militant attacks in what had been a relatively peaceful Burkina Faso have surged in recent months as Islamic insurgents spill across the borders from neighboring Mali and Niger.
SOURCE: VOA