Suspected militants have attacked two villages in Burkina Faso, killing nine people.
Security sources said that the attacks took place near Bourzanga in the north of the country and some of the victims were killed in the fields where they were farming.
Earlier this month at a summit in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, West African leaders announced one billion dollar fund to fight the growing threat of jihadist violence in the region.
Officials say in the past four years, there have been more than two thousand attacks that have killed more than eleven thousand people and displaced millions.
