Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European\u00a0Union\u2019s diplomatic service said Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cNearly a hundred civilians, including women and children, are reported to have been killed in a massacre in the village of Zaongo, in the north-central region of Burkina Faso,\u201d the\u00a0EU\u00a0External Action (EEAS) said in a statement. <\/p>\n
The attack was\u00a0condemned by the US government\u00a0which along with the EU called on the transitional authorities to \u201cshed light on the circumstances\u201d behind the massacre to \u201cdetermine who is responsible.\u201d <\/p>\n
Burkina Faso is currently under military rule after a junta staged a successful coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in July 2022.\u00a0Since the military takeover, the junta has prioritized security but has struggled to rein in islamist groups whose attacks have resulted in multiple civilian casualties this year. <\/p>\n
In early April, authorities blamed terrorists for the killing of\u00a0at least 44 people\u00a0in separate attacks on villages in northern Burkina Faso. <\/p>\n
Later that month, 136 others, including babies were killed in a similar onslaught on a village in the same region by armed men in military uniform. Authorities condemned the attack and opened an investigation. <\/p>\n
Burkina Faso has been the\u00a0epicenter of violence\u00a0that has spread across the vast Sahel region\u00a0by Islamist groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State. <\/p>\n
According to Amnesty International, large swathes of the impoverished nation are\u00a0\u201cunder siege by armed groups\u201d\u00a0who \u201ccommit war crimes and human rights abuses.\u201d <\/p>\n
In its statement condemning the latest attack, the EU reaffirmed \u201cits full solidarity with the people of Burkina Faso\u201d, describing them as \u201cfirst victims of the continuing deterioration of the security situation in the country.\u201d <\/p>\n\n
Roughly 100 civilians were reportedly killed during a massacre on a village in the West African country of Burkina Faso, the European\u00a0Union\u2019s diplomatic service said Monday. \u201cNearly a hundred civilians, including women and children, are reported to have been killed in a massacre in the village of Zaongo, in the north-central region of Burkina Faso,\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}