Burkina Faso is declaring a state of emergency in provinces grappling with jihadist violence, Communications Minister Remis Fulgance Dandjinou said on Monday.
“The president has decided to declare a state of emergency in certain provinces of Burkina Faso. He has also given instructions for specific security measures across the country,” Dandjinou said after a cabinet meeting that followed a deadly attack on police.
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Ten gendarmes were killed and three wounded on Thursday in an ambush in the northwest of the country, near the border with Mali.
They had been heading to the village of Loroni after a school had been attacked and textbooks torched by armed assailants, a security source told AFP.
The state of emergency applies to a number of provinces that lie within seven of the country’s 13 administrative regions, Dandjinou said.
The regions are Hauts-Bassins, Boucle du Mouhoun, Cascades, North and Sahel, in the west and north of the country, and the East and…
