A Jihadi Group Jihadi Group Jamaat Nasar al-Islam Wall-Muslim or JNIM has taken responsibility for a Sunday attack, which is active in the Sahel region. Placed by military jute, this country, a 23 million population, is one of the worst affected countries in the safety crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, known as a global hotspot for violent extremism. About half of Burkina Faso is out of government control as a result of violence contributing to two coup in 2022. Government security forces have also been accused of judicial killings.
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Claim of Human Rights Watch
Apart from this, Human Rights Watch said on Monday that in March, at least 100 civilians were killed by the government forces of Burkina Faso near the western city of Sollen. According to the victims’ testimony and video shared on social media by the rights group, the attacker was a member of Burkina Faso’s special force and pro -government militia, Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland. All the victims were ethnic Phulani, a shepherd community that has been spread throughout the region, which the government has been alleging supporting Muslim terrorists for a long time. The two persons spoke to the Associated Press on Monday on the condition of not mentioning the name of vengeance.
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Security forces successfully drove the extremists
Charlie Verb, an independent analyst who focused on support activists, as well as Sahel, told how the attack started simultaneously at 6 am on Sunday at 6 am. The aid worker said, “JNIM fighters attacked eight areas simultaneously to disperse the Burkina Faso Air Force. The main attack took place in Jibo, where JNIM fighters controlled all the entry posts of the city before attacking military camps, especially an anti-terrorism unit camp.” Verb, who studied the video posted online, said that the attackers spent several hours in areas without air aid from Burkina Faso’s army, while in the past, security forces successfully drove the extremists in similar attacks on Jibo.
Sahel expert and senior research Fellow Wasim Nasar at the Saufan Center Security Think Tank said that the latest attack reflects the increasing power and widespread reach of JNIM in Burkina Faso. “The fact that Jibo was targeted, confirming the limits of freedom of JNIM within Burkina Faso.” Analysts warned that the military growth strategy, which includes large-scale recruitment of citizens in poorly trained militia, has increased inter-caste tension.
