Barsalogho is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso.

[2] The Department has 43 main villages, and twelve attached sub-villages.

[3] On 24 August 2024, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Islamic terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda, attacked and massacred more than 600 people in Barsalogho and injured more than 300, mainly civilians while the Burkina Faso Armed Forces fled.

This attack is part of an ongoing series of terrorist insurgencies within Burkina Faso and the Sahel Region as a whole.

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