The attacks follow one another in the country.

Thirteen soldiers were killed on Saturday in an ambush by suspected jihadists in eastern Burkina Faso, security sources reported on Sunday.

"A unit of the Defense and Security Forces, linking Fada N'Gourma to Natiaboani" in the Eastern Province, "was the target of an ambush", we learned.

In addition, four other soldiers were injured and "several terrorists were neutralized".

Another security source confirmed the attack and the results, specifying that it had targeted "a relief team from the Natiaboni detachment".

“Reinforcements have been deployed to secure the area and carry out a search,” she added.

Frequent attacks

This attack comes shortly after Monday's attack in Djibo, a large city in northern Burkina under jihadist blockade for three months, during which ten soldiers were killed and around fifty injured.

Since 2015, the Burkinabè armed forces have been regularly bereaved by increasingly frequent and deadly jihadist attacks that have killed thousands and forced some two million people to flee their homes.

These attacks have multiplied in recent months, mainly in the north and east of the country.

Two coups in eight months

Appointed President of the Transition by the Constitutional Council on October 21, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, author of a military coup on September 30 against Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has set himself the objective of "regaining of the territory occupied by these hordes of terrorists".

This was the second coup in Burkina Faso in eight months, linked to the security situation.

On January 24, soldiers led by Lieutenant-Colonel Damiba overthrew President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, accused of laxity in the face of jihadist attacks.

On Wednesday, the new power launched the recruitment of 50,000 Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP), civilian auxiliaries of the army, who must come "to reinforce the ranks of the army within the framework of the fight against terrorism ".

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