© 2017 Héni Nsaibia/ MENASTREAM Burned academic materials on a teacher’s desk in Minima village primary school, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso, following an attack by armed Islamists on May 2, 2019. Satellite analysis by the security research group MENASTREAM (at left) suggests that images from a video depicting armed Islamists burning a school, circulated in 2019, shows an Octoattack on a school in Tem, in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region. Assailants in the video “identified themselves as ‘soldiers of the Islamic State in Burkina Faso and Mali,’” according to the security research group MENASTREAM. © 2019 Harouna Sawadogo Images from a video circulated on social media in early 2019 depict the burning of a school by armed Islamists in Burkina Faso. “We returned to try and put out the fire, because the desks were still burning-but I wasn’t able to save a single class document,” a teacher said. Attackers started fires in three classrooms, burned school materials, damaged five motorcycles, and stole three motorcycles and a computer. By early March 2020, over 2,500 schools had closed in Burkina Faso due to the armed conflict.Ī child views the damage at Sillaléba village primary school in Nasséré commune, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso, after an attack in April 2019. Primary school girls lie on the floor of their classroom during an emergency attack simulation in Dori, Sahel region, Burkina Faso, February 3, 2020.
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