A file photo of a demonstration at the Armed Forces Museum during a national cultural festival in May. Such events often seem more like mobilisation campaigns in the all-out war against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
TEENAGERS toyed with guns at a museum exhibit. Young men posed in front of posters of the country’s military leader. Over dinner in restaurants, families watched television monitors showing footage of drone strikes.
The event was billed as a national cultural festival in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. But it often resembled a mobilisation campaign in the all-out war against the terrorists who have gradually occupied the country in recent years.
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