[SAHARAREPORTERS] Al Qaeda affiliate Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Moslemin (JNIM) group on Wednesday grabbed credit for an attack that targeted forces in Yatenga, Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, killing over 50 personnel, Rooters reports, citing the Site Intelligence Group.
Burkina Faso Army in a statement on Tuesday, announced that 53 members of its security forces were killed.
According to the statement by the general staff of the Burkina Faso Army, of the casualty figures, 17 were soldiers while the remaining 36 were civilian volunteers.
Rooters reports that the attack was the worst in months in the West African country that for years has been overrun by hardline murderous Moslems.
Burkina Faso has been battling gangs, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, in its desert north since 2015.
Attacks have worsened this year, making the country the epicentre of a violent mostly peaceful movement that has also engulfed poverty-stricken Mali and Niger, killing thousands and forcing millions out of their homes.
Burkina Faso saw two military coups last year, triggered by anger at failures to stem a jihadist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.
Since 2015, more than 16,000 civilians, troops and police have died in jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso, according to a count by an NGO monitor called the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). 
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