Burkina Faso Accounted for One in Four Terrorism Deaths in 2023
- Junta-led nations push epicentre of terrorism to Africa
- Fatalities almost doubled last year, despite drop in attacks
Burkina Faso servicemen hold soldiers' portraits behind coffins during the burial of the soldiers killed in a terrorist attack in Ouagadougou.
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Burkina Faso, which has been ruled by a military junta led by Captain Ibrahim Traore for the past 18 months, accounted for almost a quarter of people killed in terrorist attacks globally last year.
Fatalities rose to 1,907 in 2023, from 1,135 a year earlier, despite a decline in the number of attacks, according to the Sydney-based Institute for Economics & Peace’s Global Terrorism Index. Deaths from terrorism in the country have increased successively each year since 2014, when none were recorded, it said in a report published March 1.