Nearly a year after Burkina Faso’s latest coup, the west African country’s problems with jihadist militants seem to be intensifying.
On 4 September, 17 soldiers and 36 volunteer fighters were killed in clashes with militants, in Burkina Faso’s worst attack in months.
But the government, led by 34-year-old army captain Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in September last year – the second of two coups in the country in 2022 – is in an increasingly tight position.
