Daily Tribune (Philippines)

‘Nothing to eat’ in blockaded Burkina Faso town

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OUAGADOUGO­U, Burkina Faso (AFP) — Jihadists have dynamited bridges and mounted deadly attacks against supply convoys, blockading Burkina Faso’s northern town of Djibo and leaving its people destitute.

“The situation is catastroph­ic in Djibo,” Idrissa Badini, a spokespers­on for a group of civil society organizati­ons in the wider Soum province, said.

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