President Roch Kabore is under heavy pressure to contain the devastating violence and end the humanitarian crisis that has seen around 1.5 million people flee their homes.
Local sources say on Sunday that they recovered a total of 160 bodies from three mass graves in Solhan region near the borders of Mali and Niger.
Some towns weren’t able to conduct voting at all, including Bartiebougou and Tin Akoff, where 14 soldiers were killed in an ambush by Daesh earlier this month.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the commune of Fada N'Gourma, around where the army is carrying out a search operation.
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