People are seen near a hospital in Ouagadougou, where some of the wounded were taken for treatment, after an ambush on workers near a Canadian-owned mine in Burkina Faso November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Bado Vincent
NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - As jihadists wreaked ever more havoc in the last two years, mining firms in Burkina Faso rolled out extra security measures, from barracks for government troops protecting them to safe rooms for workers behind barbed wire and mounds.
Expatriates generally fly in and out, while local staff still drive but in guarded convoys.
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