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Burkina Faso's underequipped army has struggled to contain the Islamist attacks which have intensified this year. [Photo: AFP]
Jihadists in Burkina Faso killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women when they simultaneously attacked a town in the north and its military base in one of the deadliest assaults in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country.
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