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Barsalogho Department
Barsalogho is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Barsalogho.
| Barsalogho |
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| Department |
| Barsalogho Department location in the province |
| Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}13°25′07″N 1°03′21″W / 13.4186°N 1.0558°W / 13.4186; -1.0558 |
| Burkina Faso |
| Sanmatenga Province |
| Barsalogho |
| 697 sq mi (1,804 km2) |
| 98,553 |
| 141.5/sq mi (54.63/km2) |
| UTC+0 (GMT 0) |
Barsalogho is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Barsalogho.
The Department has 43 main villages, and twelve attached sub-villages. Population figures are from 2006.
On 24 August 2024, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Islamic terrorist group with links to al-Qaeda, attacked and massacred more than 600 people in Barsalogho and injured more than 300, mainly civilians while the Burkina Faso Armed Forces fled. This attack is part of an ongoing series of terrorist insurgencies within Burkina Faso and the Sahel Region as a whole.
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