REFLEXIVE PEACE PRACTICE (RPP) TAFAKARI

Burkina Faso remains in a state of critical, negative peace during this reporting period. The state continues to hold a very high composite security-threat ranking, reflecting sustained armed-group activity concentrated in the northern and central regions, alongside government counter-offensive operations. No ceasefire negotiations or peace talks were recorded for this window. The government continues to project a narrative of territorial reconquest and civic mobilization (public tours by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, calls for "general mobilization against terrorism"), while independent verification of casualty figures remains limited, since the military government has for several years withheld official tolls of soldiers killed in combat. Civic space continues to shrink following the April 2026 dissolution of over 100 NGOs and associations, and the country's formal notification of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (alongside Mali and Niger) continues to raise concern among human rights actors regarding future accountability for wartime abuses. On the diplomatic front, the period closed a symbolic chapter of the rupture with France, while ties with Russia and, more discreetly, Israel continued to deepen.