Thousands Protest Rising Bloodshed In Burkina Faso

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Thousands of people took to the streets of Burkina Faso yesterday in protest, demanding a stronger response to rising jihadist bloodshed after a massacre last month killed more than 130 people.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the landlocked West African country has faced increasing attacks by jihadist groups linked Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State since 2015.

In the capital Ouagadougou, protesters chanted ‘No to growing insecurity’, ‘No to populations being abandoned’, ‘No to endless attacks’, and ‘Is there still a president in Burkina Faso?

It was the first march organised by the opposition and civil society groups since President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was re-elected last year.

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Kabore had asked the organisers to postpone the march.

But opposition leader Eddie Komboigo welcomed ‘a huge mobilisation across the country despite government calls for a boycott”.

‘Today, from Dori to Kampti, from Dedougou to Diebougou, from Ouagadougou to Diapaga, people demonstrated to protest against the worsening security situation,’ he said.

‘During Kabore’s first term, there were officially more than 1,300 deaths and 1.2 million internally displaced people,’ he pointed out.

‘It is feared that the second term will be worse than the first, because since the start of the year we have had more than 300 deaths’.

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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