source: Whatsapp; Facebook
actor1: JNIM: Group for Support of Islam and Muslims and/or Islamic State (Greater Sahara)
actor2: Private Security Forces (Burkina Faso)
location: Essakane-Site
notes: On February 28, presumed JNIM and/or ISGS militants abducted a security guard (assumed armed) and seized a vehicle from a subcontractor charged with transporting employees for the mining company IAMGold at the Essakane mine.