The armed groups have given an ultimatum to the inhabitants of the villages of Tibadi, Folpodi, Bonkada or Oumpoundeni, to leave since February 13. All the inhabitants fled to the commune of Pama, about a hundred kilometers from Fada N’Gourma. Telephone networks no longer work in part of the region, facilities have been sabotaged by armed groups.
With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani
Almost all the villages around the Pama commune have been visited by armed groups according to several witnesses. People are fleeing to take refuge in Pama, the only safe town in the area, explains a resident. ” When they came, they warned that they were giving us 24 hours to leave the village », Underlines this witness.
“ Twenty young people from the commune of Pama were kidnapped, but six people were released a few hours later “, specifies a former local elected official. These young people had decided to help the elderly to leave the threatened villages.
” Non-state gunmen »
” The situation is serious worries our interlocutor. According to witnesses, “ for the first time, non-state armed men carried out a control operation on the road from Kompienga to the Togo border “.
They check the identities of all the people who use the section and withdraw the means of transport of the workers of the public administration underline these witnesses.
Difficult to communicate with the inhabitants of the municipality of Pama. The telephone installations were sabotaged, says a source on the side of Fada N’Gourma. ” We have the impression that these armed men want to encircle the commune of Pama, we need an intervention “says this resident.
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