Much of northern and eastern Burkina Faso has been the frontline of an insurgency waged by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) 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.

[4] The first group of soldiers, made up of Rapid Intervention Brigades 5 and 9 (BIR), left the city of Dori on April 27 and headed out towards Mansila.

Thirty people were killed in Niagassi, including fifteen women and nine children, in response to the explosion.

[4] The convoy then committed three massacres in Ouro-Djiama, Tepare, and Bognori close to Mansila, killing at least 100 people.

Videos, some taken by the soldiers and some by jihadists who were the first to arrive on scene after the massacres, showed corpses of men, women, and children, including burned bodies.