“President Kaboré, the head of parliament [Alassane Bala Sakandé] and the ministers are effectively in the hands of the soldiers” in the Sangoule Lamizana regiment in Ouagadougou, a security source said, the AFP news agency reported.
Kaboré, in power since 2015 and re-elected five years later with the promise of making the fight against jihadists a priority, is increasingly criticized by the population, tired of jihadist violence and their inability to confront it.
According to AFP, this morning, a dozen hooded and armed soldiers guarded the front of the headquarters of Radio Television of Burkina Faso (RTB), which broadcast entertainment programs.
Yesterday, the military mutiny began at 1:00 a.m. (10:00 p.m. in Argentina) in various detachments in Burkina Faso to demand the resignation of the army chiefs as well as “adequate means” to fight against the jihadists, who have been operating in the country since 2015.
Automatically, the Government of Burkina Faso rejected the rumors of a military coup.
“The government, while acknowledging that there were indeed shots fired at certain barracks, denies this information and calls on the population to remain calm,” the presidential spokesman, Alkassoum Maiga, stressed at the time.
Authorities later declared a curfew “until further notice” and closed schools for two days.
One of the regiments in which shots were heard was Sangoulé Lamizana, where the prison where General Gilbert Diendéré, former chief of staff who in September 2015 led the failed coup against the government of the interim president, is still being held. Michel Kafando.
Shots were also heard at the Baba Sy barracks and at the Ouagadougou air base, as well as riots in Kaya and Ouahigouya, in the north of the country, where most of the jihadist attacks are concentrated, according to residents and military sources.
Kaboré’s arrest occurs in a climate of social discontent and after months of protests to denounce the inability of the authorities to counter the growing number of jihadist attacks, a group that also operates in Niger and neighboring Mali.
Yesterday the demonstrators supported the rioters and installed barricades in several avenues of the capital, until they were dispersed by the police.
Like Mali and Niger, Burkina Faso is immersed in a spiral of violence attributed to armed jihadist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
Kaboré’s coming to power in December 2015, a year after the fall of Blaise Compaoré, overthrown by a popular uprising after 27 years in power, had raised great hopes, but the violence of jihadist groups in the last six years It left more than 2,000 dead and forced 1.5 million people to flee their homes.
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