Jihadist Insurgency in Burkina FasoBurkina Faso · 2015–ongoing“Listen well: this telling travelled far to reach our circle.”The fire came over the Malian border in 2015 and found dry ground ready to catch — rural neglect, old quarrels over land, young men with nothing to lose. Fighters of JNIM, sworn to al-Qaeda, and of the Islamic State in the Sahel pushed out from the north and east until, by 2022, roughly two in five of Burkina Faso's districts no longer answered to the state.