On April 27,”

in Ouagadougou, “an anti-poaching patrol fell in broad daylight, in an ambush of unidentified armed men, on the Fada N'Gourma-Pama axis, where three Europeans found death. A week later, that is to say the day before yesterday Monday, around thirty Burkinabè civilians were massacred in Kodyel, in Komondjari. It would be a punitive expedition: reprisals against the recent enlistment, in the said locality, of Volunteers for the defense of the fatherland who seemed, with their families, the main targets of the attackers.

The attackers could be terrorists from the EIGS, the Islamic State in the greater Sahara, which scour this region.

Recall that in March,

Événement Niger, it is in this same part of Nigerien territory that elements of the EIGS had carried out a vendetta to execute more than 150 people.

This terrorist group apparently seeks to open a new front after that of the Three Borders, to take the Niger, already in bad shape, in pincers.

recall the regularity with which these" unidentified armed men "scour the Sahel, from Burkina Faso to Chad, via Niger and Mali, bereaving the Defense and Security Forces, and henceforth, more, the civilian populations.

More worrying is undoubtedly the large number of these armed groups in their murderous expeditions, to which must be added the ease with which they operate in villages where the inhabitants are left to fend for themselves.

The State practically no longer exists in these regions where civilians no longer know which holy protector to turn to.

The terrorist threat therefore continues to spread in the region,"

in Guinea. The fact in particular for Operation Barkhane to eliminate some charismatic figures of Evil obviously does not have enough impact on the progression of the latter. Instead of a leader who is "neutralized", we have hundreds of young people who are recruited to perpetuate the obscurantist doctrine which they are force-fed through the most sophisticated brainwashing. But if the ideologues of terror are so successful in the Sahel,

Ledjely, it is because the context is somewhat favorable to them.

It is indeed not that difficult to indoctrinate young people without jobs and without income and who, in some cases, are not immune to the abuses perpetrated by the government forces themselves.

It is therefore time to come out of illusions to face reality.

a new approach that is above all centered on the needs of the populations,

, and which does not have as its main measure of success the number of "neutralized terrorists", listed in the press releases of the national or international armies involved in the Sahel. This implies in particular evaluating the effectiveness of operations by answering the following questions: how many schools and health centers have been reopened thanks to the military intervention? Can people now access their fields to cultivate them or pastures to raise their livestock? Has the population's access to markets in neighboring villages been freed up by the operations? Have these allowed the safe, voluntary and informed returns of displaced persons and refugees? (...) The urgency, for us,

Niagalé Bagayoko is to review the order of priorities by supplementing the anti-terrorism approach with a response that favors the protection of civilians, the fight against impunity and the crisis of governance.