“When I arrived, they were killing my fourth son.”
57-year-old Yameogo Aminata has told the BBC how armed insurgents overran her village in central Burkina Faso in 2022 while she was away.
The militants seized cattle and land and killed several residents, including her four sons, aged between 25 and 32.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Burkina Faso’s insurgency, which has spread to Mali and Niger, with the UN describing the wider Sahel as the “epicentre” of global jihadist violence.
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