Posted on 01/24/2022 3:29:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Soldiers in the West African country of Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power following a mutiny over the civilian president's failure to contain an Islamist insurgency, AFP reports.
A junior officer announced the suspension of the constitution, the dissolution of the government and parliament, and the closure of the country's borders as of midnight Monday, reading from a statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
The officer said the new Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (MPSR) would re-establish "constitutional order" within a "reasonable time", adding that a nationwide nightly curfew would be enforced.
Hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the military coup in Ouagadougou, welcoming soldiers, honking car horns and waving the national flag.
Earlier on Monday, African and Western powers denounced...
The United States also called for Kabore's release...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement he "strongly condemns any attempted takeover of government by the force of arms", calling events a "coup".
A government source had said Kabore was "exfiltrated" from his home late Sunday by his presidential guard "before the arrival of armed elements who fired on the vehicles of his convoy".
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Kabore, in power since 2015 and reelected in 2020, has faced rising public anger about the failure to stop the bloodshed in the country.
On Monday, the People's Movement for Progress ruling party said Kabore was the victim of an "aborted assassination attempt".
A government minister, who was not named, also survived an attempt on his life and the president's home was ransacked, it added.
The party said the presidential palace had been "encircled" by "a group of armed and masked men" and the national radio and television "occupied".
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Please tell this means they will go back to being called Upper Volta.
That settles it. Biden will send 50,000 troops to maintain the territorial integrity of Burkina Faso.
Take me back to Upper Volta
No you can’t go back to Upper Volta
Been a long time gone, Upper Volta
Dang right! Because borders are sacrosanct!
..uh, mostly...
Too bad OUR army doesn’t act to contain a communist insurgency...but on the other hand would we want Milley as our CIC?
Why did Upper Volta get the works?
That’s no one’s business but the Burks!
The Vaxx Conglomerate probably decided to "help out" with that situation...
Was this the inspiration for the African country in the Christopher Walken film ‘The Dogs of War’? Great film by the way with an early role for the “Al Bundy” characters actor. ? Ed Harris?
Burkina Faso means “Land of Incorruptible Men”.
Milley in charge of the coup? Isn’t that redundant?
It was mythical Zangaro, and in the gen. vicinity of Congo. They put in at Brazzaville.
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Great book, like everything by Forsyth. Walken was fine, but I’d have tried to cast Michael Caine as Cat Shannon.
How far from Wakanda is it?
LOL
Michael Caine would have been outstanding d.
To be fair, Walken showed he could take a severe screen beating just as well as Brando in ‘On the Waterfront’, another amazing film. Have you seen Walken dancing to ‘Weapon of Choice’ by Fatboy Slim?
Required music video viewing. Walken was an old hand at song and dance before he hit it big acting.
so, Burkina Faso, is an actual country, huh?
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