TAFAKARI PEACE PRACTICE (RPP) TAFAKARI

Burkina Faso remained in a state of critical, negative peace this week. A reported jihadist assault on the besieged town of Djibo (night of 19–20 July) could not be independently verified: the only trace of it is a pro-government Telegram channel relayed by a single national outlet, not the state news agency or an identifiable military spokesperson a further narrowing of verifiable security information compared to previous weeks. Domestically, the government continued to consolidate AES-oriented sovereignty (parliament's ratification of confederal media agreements and a new digital rental-brokerage platform) while offering no new information on troop or civilian casualties. The one clearly positive domestic development was a solidarity visit by the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, who made concrete institutional offers of support. Regional developments affecting the wider Sahel are treated separately and are not scored into this week's Burkina-specific assessment, though they remain relevant background.