2022 Gaskinde Attack
On September 26, 2022, a convoy bound for the besieged city of Djibo in northern Burkina Faso was attacked by armed gunmen, killing 27 soldiers and 10 civilians. The Mali-based jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) claimed responsibility for the attack. The Gaskinde attack was a key reason for the September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état, September 30 coup in Burkina Faso, as many frontline officers were disgruntled about Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba's handling of the jihadist insurgency. Prelude Since 2015, northern Burkina Faso has been embroiled in a jihadist insurgency after Mali-based jihadist groups such as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, JNIM, and Al-Mourabitoun (militant group), Al-Mourabitoun. Soum Province, and its capital city of Djibo, have been at the forefront of the insurgency, and as it escalated in early 2022, jihadist groups laid siege to the city and forced Burkinabe troops and civilians to use only one road to get in or out. This road ...
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Soum Province
Soum is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Sahel Region. Its capital is Djibo. Departments Soum is divided into 9 departments: See also *Regions of Burkina Faso *Provinces of Burkina Faso *Departments of Burkina Faso The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into 351 departments (as of 2014 and since local elections of 2012), whose urbanized areas (cities, towns and villages) are grouped into the same commune (municipality) with the same name as the department ... References Provinces of Burkina Faso {{Soum-geo-stub ...
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