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Burkinabé Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba resigned, as did his entire cabinet, announced on Saturday the country's presidency (19).
"Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba this afternoon presented his resignation, as well as that of the government," says a statement read on national television in which President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has accepted the resignation of Thieba and the Thanked. by "the commitment to the service of the nation".
The reasons for the resignation have not been clarified. Local media reports recent opposition pressure on Thieba and defense and security ministers over jihadist attacks in recent months.
Burkina Faso has been facing a wave of Islamic insurgency since 2011 from northern Mali, which extended a few years later also to the east of the country, near the border with Togo and Benin.
At least 46 people were killed in early January as part of suspected terrorist attacks near Mali, shortly after the government declared emergency status in seven provinces from the north of the country as a result of violent ambushes by armed men.
The extremist group Jama & nusrat al-Islam Wal Muslimeen (JNIM), linked to the al-Qaeda network, regularly attacks in the north of the country.
Burkina Faso is one of the five countries that make up the Sahel G5 (Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad), a group that fights jihadist terrorism in the region.
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