Dr Banga (Ivory Coast): "The jihadists want to prove that they are still in the area"
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By: Sidy Yansané Follow
Four years after the attack on Grand-Bassam beach, Côte d'Ivoire is once again hit by a terrorist attack. During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a position of Ivorian forces, located in the north-east of the country, some two kilometers from the border with neighboring Burkina Faso, was besieged by an armed group, causing the death of a dozen soldiers. Dr. Arthur Banga, researcher in the history of military strategies, brings his analysis to the microphone of our correspondent in Abidjan.
- Terrorism
- Ivory Coast
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