There is an international coalition conspiring against our country, the Minister of Defense, Colonel Kassoum Coulibaly, who also denounced violations of Burkina Faso's airspace, noted, according to press reports.

Ouagadougou.- The clarifications were made at a meeting with the trade union and civil society leaders at which the minister avoided identifying the members of the alleged group and the perpetrators of the air raids.

He explained that the massacre of 136 civilians last month was perpetrated by Islamic rebels dressed in army uniforms, and refuted stories about the presence of the Wagner military group in Burkina Faso, already denied by the president of the military junta that rules the country, Captain Ibrahim Traore.

Some claim that the Russians are leading us. The Burkinabe are not children. There is no Wagner here, it is the people who are leading the war efforts against the Islamic forces,” the head of State noted.

In this regard, he noted that the government counts on the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland, an armed militia recently created as an auxiliary of the Army to fight Islamist insurgency. (PL)