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.