The six, among the 100,000 volunteers recruited to help the army fight the jihadists plaguing the west African country, face sentences of between two and 11 years after being convicted by a military tribunal in the northwest last week. Both the regular army and the Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland have been accused of committing abuses towards civilians, which Burkina Faso's military authorities have always denied. In turn, the fighters face hefty death tolls from jihadist attacks, with the junta struggling to contain a long-running radical Islamist insurgency since taking power in a coup in 2022. "In an...
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