Burkina Faso: How Children Were Used in a 48-Hour Deadly Rampage for Gold

Dec 22, 2021 | Saskya Vandoorne, Adama Koné, Nick Paton Walsh, Dalal Mawad, and Jo Shelley, CNN
View Original

The massacre in Solhan, northern Burkina Faso, took place over two nights of extraordinary brutality in June 2021. The killings soon faded from international headlines, absorbed into the rhythms of persistent violence in the Sahel region, an arid stretch of land sandwiched by the Sahara Desert and the African savannah, and wracked by the climate emergency.