for several attacks. These include the attack on two police stations in Tongomayel and Baraboulé in February 2017 and the attack at a village in Soum in
when they were buried. Nine men were also discovered in the village of Tongomayel on January 15. A relative of one of the victims stated that his nephew
January 2017, an Imam and defect from Asarul Islam was assassinated in Tongomayel. Two months later, a teacher was murdered in the village of Kourfayel