37 killed in Burkina Faso's deadliest attack in five years

The country's security forces, pictured during training, have been unable to stem jihadist violence which has intensified throughout 2019 to become almost daily. [AFP]

An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country.

The impoverished and politically fragile Sahel country has been struggling to quell a rising jihadist revolt that has claimed hundreds of lives since early 2015.