Doctors Without Borders suspends work in Burkina after two workers killed

Ouagadougou,

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) introduced on Friday that it was suspending most of its work in Burkina Faso after two of its workers have been killed final week by gunmen.

“Following the attack in which two of our staff were killed on February 8 in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, we are suspending all our activities in the country,” MSF wrote on Twitter.

“In all locations where MSF supports and provides medical and humanitarian assistance in Burkina Faso, we will only respond to life-saving emergencies for an indefinite period.”

In keeping with the NGO, gunmen focused an MSF car or truck carrying 4 medical professionals inside the northwest of the state. Two workers managed to flee and two have been killed, it suggested.

Médecins Sans Frontières president Isabelle Defourny had condemned a “deliberate and deliberate attack on a clearly identified humanitarian team during its medical work”.

The resolution to droop movements was “essential to analyze the risks our teams are currently exposed to,” Friday’s declaration added.

“We also want to confirm the unacceptable nature of this attack on colleagues traveling in a clearly marked MSF vehicle during their medical work.”

One among the world’s poorest nations, Burkina Faso has been rocked by a jihadist insurgency that spilled over from neighboring Mali in 2015. The state was the scene of two army coups in 2022.

Hundreds and hundreds have been killed, greater than two million men and women have fled their houses and round 40 percentage of the state is exterior authorities manipulate.

On Thursday, 5 men and women together with two troopers have been killed in an assault inside the japanese province of Tapoa.