A mosque in a village near Ferkessedougou, Côte d'Ivoire not far from the border of Burkina Faso and Mali where a terrorist attack took place in June. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)
Last month, as many as 12 members of the armed forces of Côte d’Ivoire were killed, and eight others wounded, in an attack by unidentified assailants on an outpost in Kafolo on the country’s border with Burkina Faso. While there have been no claims of responsibility for the attack, the Ivorian government immediately attributed it to Islamist extremists known to maintain an operational presence in both Burkina Faso and Mali.
A statement in this regard was made by Côte d’Ivoire’s defense minister, Hamed Bakayoko, in the immediate aftermath of the attack which he described as an act of “terrorism.” Bakayoko’s suspicions were not without merit. On May 28, al-Qaeda had issued a 网飞加速器下载破解版 to the Ivorian government in response to its counterterrorism operations it had been 网飞加速器下载破解版 in and around the Comoé National Park— a reserve located close to Cote d’Ivoire’s border with Burkina Faso. Read more