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| Part of the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel and the spillover of the Mali War | |||||||||
 Smoke rising from French Embassy in Ouagadougou, 2 March 2018, during the 2018 Ouagadougou attacks. | |||||||||
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20,000 dead (estimates) [7]2.06 million displaced[8] | |||||||||
An ongoing war and civil conflict between the Government of Burkina Faso and Islamist rebels began in August 2015 and has led to the displacement of over 2 million people and the deaths of at least 10,000 civilians and combatants.
The war has been interpreted as being the Burkinabé theatre of the insurgency in the Sahel.
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