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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I have, but I don’t think the Spanish have. Or at any rate, they think that everybody is going to understand their goodwill. It’s a common failing.
There is a method that I have used to keep from being killed in some african craphole. It has worked EVERY day, ALL of my life. The method is simple. I DON’T GO TO AFRICA!!!! I am living to a ripe old age by employing just such methods.
I agree and have always found that odd considering the Spanish history of conquest.
Jeez. Some people can’t take ‘’yes’’ for an answer.
The Spaniards sound like single, white female public school teachers.
Not really. They’re just sort of well meaning but clueless.
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