April 2023 Aorema attack

April 2023 Aorema attack
Part of Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
Date April 15, 2023 Location Aorema, Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso Result Indecisive
Belligerents
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Armed Forces Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland	Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin
Casualties and losses
75+ soldiers and VDP killed (per Liberation) 6 soldiers and 34 VDP killed (per Burkinabe govt) 33 injured	~50 killed (per Burkina Faso)

On April 15, 2023, jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin attacked a group of Burkinabe soldiers and civilian volunteers in the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) near Aorema, Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso, killing at least forty soldiers and VDP and injuring over thirty others. The attack occurred a month after a massacre against civilians by JNIM in Aorema that killed fourteen. Following the attack, Burkinabe soldiers searching for the perpetrators of the April attack killed over 130 civilians in the Karma massacre.