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Burkina Faso coup: Islamist insurgency broke out in the country in 2015 • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE24, 03 Oct 2022
Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.
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