Burkina Faso On April 15, 2023, jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin attacked a group of Burkinabe soldiers and civilian volunteers in the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) near Aorema, Yatenga Province, Burkina Faso, killing at least forty soldiers and VDP and injuring over thirty others.

Much of northern Burkina Faso has been the frontline of an insurgency waged by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara since 2015, with these groups intensifying their attacks on civilians seen as sympathetic to the government since 2019.

[2] Jihadists from JNIM's rival group ISGS killed 44 civilians in the Kourakou and Tondobi attacks in Séno Province, which neighbors Yatenga.

Of the dead, six Burkinabe soldiers and thirty-four VDP were killed, and most of the thirty-three wounded were evacuated to the Regional University Hospital of Ouahigouya in a stable condition.

[5][6] A report by Libération stated that security sources in the region assessed that over 75 soldiers were killed in the attack, the majority of which were VDP.