Africa is a perpetual battlefield. Its soil is soaked with blood.
One example:
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 30 (Reuters) - A woman who survived the massacre of hundreds of villagers in central Burkina Faso described the horror of searching through bodies to find her brothers, in an interview following the attack claimed by an Al Qaeda-linked group earlier this week.
“We went out with carts to collect the bodies of my older brothers,” said the woman, 38, who escaped with her toddler. “We spent a long time going through bodies piled up under trees.” …
Al Qaeda affiliate Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin said it attacked soldiers and militia members … and killed nearly 300, describing all the victims as fighters, not civilians.[But] several videos apparently filmed by the militants and released on social media showed more than 100 bodies piled in a trench, [and] most of them [were] in civilian clothing.
Jihadist groups have destabilized swathes of West Africa’s Sahel region since an insurgency took root in Mali in 2012.
Frustrations over worsening violence led to two coups in Burkina Faso in 2022, but the new authorities have failed to stem the bloodshed.
Over 6,500 civilians have been killed since the start of 2020.
Comment:
The body count is even higher - much higher - in Nigeria, Sudan, the Congo …