A high-level ministerial mission went to the scene of the Banibangou attack on Thursday 18 March in Tillabéry in the western part of the country. On Monday, gunmen killed 58 villagers returning from a trade show.
The Minister of the Interior, Alkashe Allada, accompanied among others by the Minister of Humanitarian Action and the High Commissioner for Peacebuilding, met on the spot with the families of the victims, village chiefs and local authorities.
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For the teacher-researcher at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Abdoulaye Sounaye, these attacks in the so-called “three borders” area (between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger) reveal the emergence of groups trying to introduce into spaces where the state powers are very questionable.
“These attacks are happening in Niger, Mali, Burkina. And this region seems to indicate to us a process of social transformation that highlights new actors who want to have a social and political space. And these actions are, in my opinion, to some extent a way of destroying the state. Gradually we saw that these actions consisted of attacking communities and driving them more or less out. It is a kind of war that does not speak its name and involves pushing people out if these people do not change their allegiance to some degree. We will wait to find out who is behind this massacre, but we will have to go into much deeper analyzes of the social logic, how they change, and who are the actors that emerge in this process of societal transformation. , as we are. see it in the region. ”
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