![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In its early stages, Ansarul Islam, founded by Malam Ibrahim Dicko, a preacher from Soum, is a manifestation of widespread discontent at the province’s social order. ![]() However, their approach needs to better take account of the local and social roots of the crisis, which are more profound than its religious and security dimensions. Ouagadougou and its foreign partners recognise that their response requires more than military offensives and that a definitive resolution of the crisis hinges in part on the situation in Mali. While military operations reasserted the state’s control in the spring of 2017, the crisis is far from over. Ansarul Islam, the group behind much of the violence, which often is portrayed as tied to jihadists elsewhere in the Sahel, is first and foremost a movement challenging the prevailing social order in Soum province, in Burkina’s Sahel region. Although this insecurity in large part is an extension of the Malian conflict, the crisis has strong local dynamics. Long spared by the Sahel’s armed groups, Burkina Faso now faces increasingly frequent and lethal attacks in its north. ![]()
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