source: Ouaga24; Le Pays; AIB (Burkina Faso)
actor1: JNIM: Group for Support of Islam and Muslims
actor2: Military Forces of Burkina Faso (2015-)
location: Kabonga
notes: On 28 August 2018, presumed JNIM militants detonated an IED against a convoy of combined units of the army and the gendarmerie in the area of Kabonga (Pama, Kompienga). Seven soldiers were killed and six others were wounded. The government forces were deployed as reinforcements after the gendarmerie in Pama had been subjected to an armed assault.