Burkina Faso announced on Thursday an “exceptional recruitment” of 5,000 non-commissioned soldiers to serve the army for “at least five years”, as part of the anti-jihadist fight, according to a press release from the Ministry of Defense sent to AFP.
“An exceptional recruitment of 5,000 non-commissioned soldiers for the benefit of the national armed forces, to serve for at least five years, in their military region of recruitment, will take place throughout the national territory”, indicated the Minister of Defence, Colonel Major Kassoum Coulibaly, in the press release.
This recruitment “concerns in priority young Volunteers for the defense of the homeland (civilian auxiliaries of the army) meeting the conditions”, he added. The young people concerned must in particular be born between January 1, 1988, and December 31, 2003, specified the minister.
Likewise, This is the third time in nearly a year that the Burkinabè army has organized such a recruitment.