Burkina Faso: Armed groups blow up two bridges and isolate the Sahel region

The city of Djibo, in Burkina Faso, had been waiting for a supply convoy from Ouagadougou for several days.

But the city is now cut off from the capital.

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Two bridges were blown up by armed groups in Burkina Faso on the night of Friday July 15 to Saturday July 16.

After destroying the Wousse bridge, forcing a convoy supposed to supply the town of Djibo to return to Kongoussi, it was the Naré bridge that suffered a second blast.

These two attacks are intended, according to analysts, to further isolate the Sahel region.

For the moment, it is practically impossible to reach Ouagadougou from Dori (North-East).

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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou,

The alert was given by the carriers, stopped in their journey between Kaya and Dori.

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, a transporter told his colleagues early this Saturday.

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The work had been attacked for the first time on June 30, but work had enabled people to continue to use this road axis.

According to testimonies and images posted on social networks, it is now practically impossible to rally the capital to Dori.

The other bridge concerned is the one located in the locality of Wousse, on the Kongoussi-Bourzanga axis.

The destruction of part of this structure forced the supply convoy from

to turn around.

The convoy was escorted by the defense and security forces.

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, explains a resident of Djibo,

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Road infrastructures are becoming prime targets for armed groups in Burkina Faso.

In a confidential report addressed to the authorities of the transition, the NGO Promediation recently drew attention to this new strategy of the armed groups consisting in exerting pressure on the main roads of the country.

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