what is Burkino FASO Conflict? Reasons? SOLUTIONS.

1. BURKINA FASO CONFLICT
Submitted By: Aliza Mir
Date: 30th March, 2020.

2. Burkina Faso?
• Landlocked Country in West Africa
•Burkina Faso "land of honest men"
•Gained independence as
Upper Volta in 1960
•Capital: Ouagadougou
•Significant reserves of gold.
•Sunni Muslims - Religious majority

3. Conflict in Burkina Faso?
•Islamic Militant Activities
•Terrorists
•Jihadi activists
•Terrorist attacks

4. Components of Conflict?
Actors
• Jihadis/Militant groups/Terrorists Vs.
Burkina Faso Citizens and forces
Incompatibilit
y
• Land
• Resources
• Launching pad for operations
Actions
• Displacing of Citizen
• Militant strikes
• Killings
• Spread of fear

5. Effect of Militant Activities
•Extremist attacks
•Killings and kidnaps
•Bomb attacks
•Hunger
•Lack of education
•Fear and insecurity among people
•Mass displacement and loss of shelter

6. Militant Groups
•Three key Islamist militant groups include
1. Ansar ul Islam
2. The Group for the Support of Islam and
Muslims (GSIM)
3. Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS).

7. 1. Ansar ul Islam
•Defenders of Islam
•Founded in 2016
•By Ibrahim Malam Dicko
•fought with Islamist militants in Mali
•Nasambou Military post Attack in December
2016.

8. Group for Support of Islam and Muslims
•(GSIM)
•AQIM, Ansar Dine and al-Mourabitoun
•operates in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
•kidnappings, attacks against state symbols and
improvised explosive devices
•2016 Hotel attack
•2017 Turkish café attack
•2018 French embassy and army HQ attack

9. Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
•(ISGS)
•Associated with ISIL
or Al-Qaeda
•Salafi-jihadist insurgency
•Burkinabe gendarmerie outpost Attack
•Attacks in Mali and Niger.

10. Other Factors
•Insurgency
•Ill-equipped and poorly trained army
•Banditry
•herder-farmer competition
•Protests against Government

11. Importance
•Citizen security
•West-Africa Coast
•Statements by militants suggest that they might
use Burkina Faso as a launching pad for
operations along the coast or to put down roots
in the northernmost regions of countries such as
Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, or Benin.

12. Solution?
•Effective implementation of Action Plan
•USA
•UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy
•Intelligence Sharing
•Border Control
•Policies to win citizen support

13. Solutions
•Improve border control
•Stop foreign militant
fighters
•Cut Financing
•Reduce access to weapons
•Prevent radicalization

14. THANK YOU