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Deadly insurgency hobble poverty-stricken Burkina Faso

FRANCE24, 28 Apr 2021
#BurkinaFaso, where two Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen were killed by "terrorists" in an attack on an anti-poaching patrol, is one of the world's poorest countries. The West African country has been in the grip of an intensifying jihadist #insurgency since 2015. FRANCE 24's Claire Rush explains.

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