Islamist insurgency in Burkina Faso
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| Part of the War in the Sahel and the spillover of the Mali War | |||||||||
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20,000 dead (estimates) 2.06 million displaced | |||||||||
An ongoing war and civil conflict between the Government of Burkina Faso and Jihadist African wings of Al-Qaeda began in August 2015 and has led to the displacement of over 2 million people and the deaths of at least 20,000 civilians and combatants.
The war has been interpreted as being the Burkinabé theatre of the insurgency in the Sahel.