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Last weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the fight against militants in the Sahel region during a visit to Niger.<\/p>\n
“The coming weeks are absolutely decisive for our fight against terrorism,” he said.<\/p>\n
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Tuesday’s attack was carried out by dozens of fighters on motorbikes and lasted several hours. No group has so far said it was behind it, but groups allied to al-Qaeda or Islamic State are active in the region.<\/p>\n
“This barbaric attack resulted in the deaths of 35 civilian victims, most of them women,” President Kabor\u00e9 said in a statement. He also praised the “heroic action of our soldiers” who battled the assailants.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, at least 14 people were killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in the east of the country.<\/p>\n
Burkina Faso, a predominantly Muslim country, was once relatively stable but has descended into serious unrest since 2015. About 700 people have been killed and 560,000 displaced.<\/p>\n
The conflict spread across the border from neighbouring Mali, where Islamist militants took over the north of the country in 2012 before French troops pushed them out.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"