Operation Bourgou IV

Operation Bourgou IV
	Part of Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
Date	November 1–17, 2019
Location	Tofagala Forest, Burkina Faso and Boulikessi, Mali
Result	French-G5 Sahel victory
Belligerents
G5 Sahel Burkina Faso; Mali; Niger; France	Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin; Ansarul Islam; Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
Strength
1,400 troops 800 Sahelien troops; 600 French troops;	~500 (Tofagala Forest alone)
Casualties and losses
2 killed; No other casualties	25 jihadists killed or captured; 64 motorcycles destroyed

Between November 1 and 17, 2019, French and G5 Sahel troops conducted an operation against the jihadist groups of Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, Ansarul Islam, and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara in Boulikessi, Déou, and Boula along the Malian and Burkinabe borders.