source: Signal; MinuteBf; Aujourd8; Undisclosed Source; AIB (Burkina Faso); Twitter
actor1: JNIM: Group for Support of Islam and Muslims and/or Islamic State (West Africa) - Greater Sahara Faction
actor2: Police Forces of Burkina Faso (2015-)
location: Gorom-Gorom
notes: On 23 August 2021, presumed JNIM or ISWAP (Greater Sahara) militants killed a plain-clothes (on duty) policeman and seized his service weapon, motorcycle, and mobile phone in the town of Gorom-Gorom (Gorom-Gorom, Oudalan). Several youths were also stripped of their phones and motorcycles.