Burkina Faso makes tentative steps towards dialogue with jihadists AFP 3/10/2021 AFP
While he was on the campaign trail last November, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore had a mantra We shall not negotiate when talking about Burkina Faso s jihadist insurgency.
The policy set Kabore apart from former president Blaise Compaore, whose view was that dialogue with jihadists from neighbouring Mali had discouraged attacks on Burkina Faso itself.
Kabore s declared refusal has been strongly backed by France, whose military campaign against jihadism in the Sahel is now in its ninth year.
But sources say contacts have taken place with jihadists at the local level in part of northern Burkina Faso.
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