Six people were on Tuesday jailed for life over a jihadist attack in 2020 that killed 14 soldiers at a border post in Ivory Coast, a lawyer involved in the case has revealed. The Lawyer Abdoulaye Ben Meite said six of the 45 defendants on trial for the attack in Kafolo received life sentences, while 17 were jailed for 20 years and fined 50 million CFA francs ($89,000).
He added that one person was given a five-year sentence and 21 people were acquitted.Armed men attacked the military post in the northeast village of Kafolo overnight on June 10-11, 2020.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack but it was blamed on jihadists operating over the border in Burkina Faso in retaliation for a joint Ivorian and Burkinabe operation against extremists in the region.
Ivory Coast shares its northern border with Burkina Faso and Mali, which have both been ravaged by Islamist extremist attacks that have spread south towards coastal countries.
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