Burkina Faso began two days of mourning on Sunday after 41 people died in the latest attack by suspected jihadists in the troubled and largely unprotected north, IgbereTV reports
A bloody six-year-long jihadist campaign has claimed around 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes in the formerly peaceful West African nation and show no signs of easing.
A government statement said following Thursday’s attack, “the search mission in the area of an ambush by armed terrorist groups… has established a toll of 41 bodies”.
“The president decrees national mourning of 48 hours,” from midnight on Sunday, it added
