Deaths, Instability Increase Across the Western Sahel in 2022: WestAfrica
As the Western Sahel conflict entered its 11th year, starting from Mali's 2012 coup, violence grew worse. Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project show around 9,000 fatalities due to conflict in 2022, up from about 6,000 the year before.
Some in the region, like Bachirou Ouedraogo, a painter and decorator in Burkina Faso, believe Russia will remedy Burkina Faso's insecurity. 2022 saw France wrap up Operation Barkhane, its military intervention based in Mali, as it became increasingly unpopular and relations with Mali's military junta began to deteriorate.In Mali, French troops have been replaced by mercenaries from a Russian paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group, which has been accused of human rights abuses and of fueling more violence than they prevent.
Both the Malian and Burkinabe juntas cited the previous government's inability to solve the insecurity.
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