There have been others. A similar attack occurred last year in January in at a luxury hotel in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso's capital) killing 29 people. Not to mention the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Whatever perspective you look at this from many Francophile countries in West Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly becoming exposed to the ambitions of Islamist extremist groups that are themselves fighting one another for power in that continent, much like the situation we have in the middle-east. A problem that to me seems to have far more potential to get worse before it gets better. Esh
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