UPDATE: Four suspected militants attacks leave 30 people dead in Burkina Faso, including 16 volunteers backing up the army – security sources
Since 2015, the country has been grappling with an insurgency led by militant groups that have killed tens of thousands and displaced around two million people.
Thursday's attacks in the north and northwest of the country were the latest to hit a civilian auxiliary force that supports the military in a seven-year fight against the militants. He said the second attack killed around 10 auxiliaries and a person in Nayala province in the northwest "in the afternoon when a convoy escorted by auxiliaries and soldiers was ambushed on the Siena-Saran road".
The VDP, set up in December 2019, comprises civilian volunteers who are given two weeks' military training and then work alongside the army, typically carrying out surveillance, information-gathering or escort duties.
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