Loading ...The death of Canadian Kirk Woodman, who was abducted in Burkina Faso this week and whose body was found late Wednesday with gunshot wounds, has highlighted the growing instability in the Sahel region of West Africa, where Islamist militancy is rapidly on the rise.
Sandwiched between Niger to the east and Mali to the northwest on the southern tip of the Sahara, landlocked Burkina Faso, which has a history of military coups and droughts, remains impoverished even by standards of the region.
In recent months the security situation in the country has deteriorated rapidly, forcing the government to declare a state of emergency in several northern provinces.
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