Posted on 04/27/2021 5:18:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two Spanish journalists making a documentary about anti-poaching efforts and a third foreign national were killed in Burkina Faso after being kidnapped there on Monday, according to the authorities from the Western African nation and Spain.
The killings come at a time of increasing violence in Burkina Faso and a deteriorating security situation in the Sahel, especially in the border area of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. Burkina Faso has seen attacks from many armed groups, several of them linked to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Attackers on motorbikes have stormed countless villages, forcing residents to convert to Islam and sometimes killing them even when they do. Others have ambushed military patrols and killed members of the armed forces, and hundreds of schools have been forced to close because of the violence.
Last year was the deadliest for militant Islamist violence in the region, according to the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a U.S. Defense Department research institution. About 4,250 people were killed — a 60 percent increase over 2019 — with the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara linked to more than half of the deaths.
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Africa wins again.
As it did in Bali, Bombay, and San Bernardino.
[Attackers on motorbikes have stormed countless villages, forcing residents to convert to Islam and sometimes killing them even when they do.]
Gosh, who wouldn’t want to join such a fun group?
Who'ld have thought?
Average IQ in Burkino Faso is around 74.
Just saying.
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What was the so-called IQ of these Spanish “journalists”?
This would never have happened if it was still called Upper Volta.
Yes, but they do metric IQ there.
This is French revolution redux. The same liberals know how crazy this stuff is, but they’ll be in the second batch to be beheaded.
Maybe we can send all the FIB agents over there to train so they won’t be in danger from extremists here in the US!
Up until a few years ago Burkia-Faso was a peaceful Christian country.
Burkina Faso:
I have DNA from the two countries just south and west of there to the Atlantic Ocean: Benin and Togo.
That area was really big in the capturing of native Africans and selling them as slaves to anyone who would pay the price and buy them.
Why didn't they call it Little Volta?
It’s a landlocked country. I guess it was defined by it’s waterway - the upper reaches of the Volta River.
Little Amp...Kleine Volta...anyone?!...[Tap}{TAP}...Is this mic on?
The Spanish are very naive. They always think these savage people are going to understand that they’re really there to help said savage people. Big mistake.
“Burkina Faso” means “Land of Incorruptible Men”.
I guess you never heard of Leopold II.
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