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9:14 CAT | 14 Apr 2023
FILE - Some think the country may see a state of emergency declared. [File photo: AFP]
Burkina Faso’s military government has set a target of recapturing 40% of territory lost to militant groups, announcing a “general mobilisation” to give them “all necessary means” to do so.
Almost half of the country is currently outside state control as a result of the insurgency which began in 2015.
Last week, 44 civilians were killed following an attack on the villages of Kourakou and Tondobiin the north-east near the country’s border with Niger.
A statement on Thursday by Defence Minister Col Maj Kassoum Coulibaly said the new measures would “give a legal framework to all the actions to be implemented to deal with the situation that Burkina Faso is experiencing”.
It is thought it could include a state of emergency in parts of the country, although the full details of the guidelines are not yet clear.
The so-called “general mobilisation” also guarantees the government freedom of action to deal with terrorist threats. Burkina Faso’s parliament passed a law in 2020 to recruit Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland, an auxiliary civilian army to support the fight against terrorists.
Source: BBC
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