The Prime Minister of Burkina Faso assured the Transitional Legislative Assembly that elections could not be held "without security" The country is regularly hit by terrorist groups, which last weekend killed about forty people in two attacks. In total, more than 100 people died in various terrorist offensives in May.
The head of government also said that "there is no possible negotiation" with the "terrorist hordes" The approximately 50,000 VDPs currently registered in the country – civilian army auxiliaries trained for one to two months – are paying a heavy price.