Is Burkina Faso on the verge of being overrun by militants?

Six people have been killed in the latest attacks by militants in Burkina Faso.

This attack occurred outside a church in the village of Zimtenga in the north-western part of the country. It follows another attack of the same nature that occurred several weeks ago.

Burkina Faso has been beset by a rise in attacks in 2018 and 2019 as groups with links to Daesh and al-Qaeda based in neighboring Mali seek to extend their influence over the porous borders of the Sahel.

The government has declared a state of emergency in several northern provinces bordering Mali since December 2018 because of deadly extremist attacks. There are now concerns that the new violence is a threat to regional stability as well as to the internal harmony of a country that is seeing its very identity threatened.

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