A brutal attack led by an al-Qaeda-affiliated group has left 22 civilians dead and 4 others injured in Burkina Faso. The incident occurred Friday in the village of Solhan, located in the Bangaba district of Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel Region. This was made known on Saturday by Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, in a post on his X handle. The security expert, citing local sources, stated that militants from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, launched the assault during morning prayers, targeting residents as they …