I keep waiting for ObamaPeace to sweep the world.
Posted on 06/02/2011 4:25:56 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
OUAGADOUGOU — Authorities imposed a curfew in Burkina Faso's second-largest city on Thursday after angry troops went on another rampage, firing shots into the air and looting businesses, residents said.
In a repeat of events Tuesday night in Bobo Dioulasso, soldiers left the country's second-largest base after midnight heading for the centre of town, said witnesses.
Through the night, troops looted shops, angering tradesmen who took to the streets in retaliation, before being dispersed by paramilitary police, sources said.
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Tradesmen have targetted government buildings, in retaliation for the damage to their businesses, the city's mayor, Salia Sanou said.
"Business owners attacked city hall, the customs office and other state buildings," he explained.
"They have had enough, I understand them," he said. "We promised to compensate them yesterday (for earlier looting). They kept their calm and now they get looted again."
Mutinies over salaries have now spread to all the military bases of this poor, landlocked west African nation of 16 million people.
President Blaise Compaore, in power since 1987, has since February been confronted with an unprecedented wave of unrest, marked by social protests as well as military mutinies.
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I keep waiting for ObamaPeace to sweep the world.
WHERE?
And they said all the good screen names were taken.
THAILAND!
I’ll take Bobo Dioulasso for $300, Alex.
Looting?? No problem, just a cultural pastime.
I had to look it up. I do remember reading about it as a kid, back when it was called Upper Volta. Always sounded like it should have been a Baltic state.
Doesn’t he play middle linebacker for the Seahawks?
(lol)
The Seahawks? Are they still a professional team? How does Pete Carroll feel about working with such a small payroll?
Gorom Gorom, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Gorom Gorom, oh baby
Me gotta go
Okay, let’s give it to ‘em, right now!
See Burkina Faso, the moon above
It won’t be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I’ll never leave again
Gorom Gorom, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Gorom Gorom, oh baby
Me gotta go
Let’s take it on outa here now
Let’s go!!
You can get serious bling with that BF Money.
I’d never heard of Burkina before.
Upper Volta.
She usually hangs out at Walmart with her sister Lakeesha.
Go figure Captain, the Africans are stealing TVs
The moslems display their own particular perversions by hand gang raping a Jewess?? Cultural neurosis on display, any amatuer pocket psycoanalysis?
While stationed in Havana in the 1990s, I used to jog by the Embassy of Burkina Faso every morning. It was only later that I learned that their embassy there was the HQS of all Burkina Faso intelligence activity in the western hemisphere.
Nobody goes for the day-old or stale looting anymore,
gotta be “Fresh”.
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