Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in neighbouring Burkina Faso, describing scenes of sometimes indiscriminate violence and bloody battles. "We are always with the dead.
In some battles, I've seen 40, 50 or 100 dead people," one of the men told the BBC.
The three, all in their late thirties or early forties, said they had fought in Burkina Faso multiple times since 2018.
They crossed the porous 550km-long (340-mile) border between the two countries, without being detected by the security forces.