Pétéga is a village situated in the
Nassoumbou Department
Nassoumbou is a department or commune of Soum Province in north-western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Nassoumbou. in the
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Soum.
History
On March 22, 2017, a leader of
Ansar ul Islam
Ansar ul Islam is a militant Islamist group active in Burkina Faso and in Mali. It was founded by Boureima Dicko, also known as Ibrahim Malam Dicko, and it is the first native Jihadi group in Burkina Faso. The group cooperates closely with Jama' ...
, Harouna Dicko, was killed in Pétéga by
Burkina Fasan security forces.
References
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Populated places in the Sahel Region