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Kabore follows Compaore's example and talks to the Jihadists
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Burkinabe president Roch Kabore, who is receiving generous subsidies to help him combat the radical groups operating on his borders, is conducting parallel negotiations with the very Jihadists he is supposed to be fighting. In so doing, he is following the example set by his predecessor, Blaise Compaore, whose entourage never broke contact with the armed Jihadi groups.
Burkinabe president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and his Malian opposite number Ibrahim Boubacar Keita spent a few hours in what appeared to be perfectly ordinary private discussion when they met in Dakar on April 1 for the investiture of Senegalese head of state Macky Sall. The subject they discussed at length and without witnesses was anything but ordinary, however. For a month now, the Burkinabe president has been talking secretly with the Jihadi groups active on his country's northern border with
